Private channel session 608
14 messages over 1h 46m, 2020-11-24 – 2020-11-24.
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I'm not quite sure what that SCMP article is about, but hey... One thing though - "In Tuesday's update, Shi said she and her team collected 13 serum samples from four miners who came down with a mystery respiratory disease after clearing bat faeces in a copper mine in Yunnan province inApril 2012."They didn't find SARS-CoV-2 in these samples, but they never would even if they were infected by SARS-CoV-2 -you can't find the virus in the blood/serum/plasma, so this doesn't really tell us much....
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@Andrew Rambaut - how the fuck did this get through? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.17.386714v1
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The clock is ticking for the first set of shit headlines...
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This one is a little too ridiculous (but look - Harvard!), so I'm not sure it'll get picked up. We'll just point to Andrew's take-down - thanks Andrew!
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Just seen Andrew's rebuttal. Great!! The journos will love this - Harvard death mutations.
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I look forward to the first 'how did this shit get through bioRxiv?' comment.
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Harvard just needs to merge this pile of turds with the "oh look, a lot of cars outside the hospitals" study - the ultimate turd pile.
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Good point. How was the traffic outside that hospital in Brazil?
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At a standstill - turns out all the drivers died.
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I still can't believe these idiots went ahead and wrote a full paper - such a giant waste of time.
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I found another beautiful study from them: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.165936v1.full I'm glad to see their new-found interest in virus genomes. You sorta just take all the stuff you learned in Human Genetics 101 and apply it - because, why waste time building a tree or whatever?
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Who is reviewing these? It ain't me.
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Not me either... Total junk.
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I wonder if this is what NEJM meant when they talked about "Research Parasites"... Maybe they had a point :wink:. Actually, no, they didn't - the issue isn't the data here, it's just shit science. Can't totally shield against that.