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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.5 · slack_pm:msg:00035

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Date
2020-05-01 14:23 (hour precision)
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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Rasmussan, Daszak several others I don't recognize.

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  1. 2020-05-01 14:23 Robert F. Garry open
    SLACK_000219 AS for the Wash Post - Good job Eddie and Kristian - watched the video - will likely keep the lab escape hypothesisalive for longer - 50K
  2. 2020-05-01 14:23 Kristian G. Andersen open
    There's a video?
  3. 2020-05-01 14:23 Robert F. Garry open
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/01/was-new-coronavirus-accidentally-released-wuhan-lab-its-dou btful/
  4. 2020-05-01 14:23 Robert F. Garry open
    Yes
  5. 2020-05-01 14:23 Robert F. Garry
    Rasmussan, Daszak several others I don't recognize.
  6. 2020-05-01 14:23 Edward C. Holmes open
    I've never emailed the Washington Post. That must come from an email that I sent to my press officer who then forwarded to them. I need to correct the I story. Nonsense.
  7. 2020-05-01 14:23 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I don't remember talking to these journalists either...
  8. 2020-05-01 14:23 Kristian G. Andersen open
    The video is pretty fucking terrible. Ending on "how unusual/remarkable is it that there's a lab working on bat coronaviruses exactly where an outbreak of a coronavirus started"? How dumb are people exactly? Good old correlation, not causation. May I suggest an alternative explanation - they're studying bat coronaviruses BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF BAT CORONAVIRUSES AROUND THERE. Which, I don't know, in combination with wet markets and the like might increase the risk of an outbreak from a bat coronaviruses.We need an actual razor in Occam's razor.
  9. 2020-05-01 14:23 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, it's shite. That Baric paper is also really weird. Reads to me that are pissed off that they were not involved inour paper and so want to get in on the act.

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