All scientific research that is done is a fact. Some of it is proven fact. Some of it is not proven fact. If there are notebooks and records and videos of a particular piece of scientific research, it is most likely proven to have been done.
I don't really understand what your trying to mean here by saying, all scientific research being done is a fact. While in high school and elementary school, when being thought on scientific procedures, there are steps before we could call a thing a fact. Thats why the theory does exists because, not everything could be regarded as a fact. Why?
Before any part or all of a research could be called a fact, it must have satisfied the condition that, it would produce the same result when repeated anytime and anywhere around the world and certainly, not all scientific research can satisfactory attain this affirmation of science.
If you washed the dishes, is it a fact that you washed the dishes or not? If you didn't get them as clean as your wife would have, or if you didn't rinse the soap off them, that doesn't mean that you didn't wash the dishes. No. If you washed the dishes, then you factually washed the dishes. But if you didn't wash them, then you factually didn't wash them.
If a scientific researcher researches a piece of science, it is a fact that he did the scientific research in question. If he didn't research the piece of science, then it is a fact that he didn't do it.
In other words, all scientific research that is done is factually done. If it wasn't done, then it factually wasn't done. What's so hard to understand about this? Somebody else might say that it wasn't done, but if it wasn't done, only then was it factually not done. However, if it was done, then it factually was done.
In my talk with
franky1, the idea really never is that the Covid virus wasn't ever isolated. There could have been 50,000 researchers that isolated the Covid virus. If they did it, then it was factually done. Just because they didn't write down their notes regarding the process they used to isolate, or just because they didn't video it all, and even if they disposed of all the equipment, the samples, and the results, their notes, and the videos, doesn't mean that they did not do isolating of the virus. They still factually did it if they did it. If they didn't do it, then they factually didn't do it.
They might say that they did the isolation. If there aren't any notes or videos, other people might ask if they are lying, or if they are mentally disturbed. But if they did it, they factually did it. They might be able to mimic the processes they used well enough that they could convince some other people that they must have really done it. But the point remains. If they did the isolation, then they factually did it. If they didn't do the isolation, then they factually didn't do it.
Now that we have that out of the way, we can try to find out if they actually did it, or find the place where they hid their in-process notes and the videos. Once we get those, we can start to determine for our own satisfaction if they truly isolated the virus or not, or if they made a bunch of mistakes and didn't really isolate the virus after all. Because even if they thought they did, even if they were sincere, even if they went through a bunch of complex procedures, but really messed up and didn't isolate the virus, then the fact is that they didn't isolate the virus.
Either way, there will be a bunch of people who weigh in on whether or not the isolation was done. Points will have to be compared, and compared with sound logic both of the present and of the past. Sure would help to have those in-process notes and videos.