I personally feel that every sophomore in US should be taught basic research principles and how to critique a study.No, that's NOT what the study says. Recommend you read it for yourself.
That is, however, a good summation of the title.
Oddly, this is being pushed by some of the same people convinced COVID arose in a Chinese Weapons lab (an opinion upon which I have no strong opinion). The authors of the study are:
Shuangshi Wei,a,1 Shengbao Duan,a,b,1 Xiaomei Liu,a Hongmei Wang,a Shaohua Ding,a Yezhou Chen,a Jinsong Xie,a Jingjing Tian,a Nong Yu,c pingju Ge,d xinglin Zhang,d Xiaohong chen,d Yong Li,a,⁎ and Qinglin Menga,⁎
and its disclosed funding?
This work was supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grants No BK20180224) and Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20160362).
For the geographically impaired, I offer Google maps.
Jiangsu Province
Your lesson here demonstrates the first flaw: author affiliation bias and sponsorship. Just after making that discovery is when one should conclude that the paper is best used as coop bedding.