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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.6 [SLACK_000220] · slack_pm:msg:00048

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Date
2020-05-01 16:31
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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Exactly how I read it.

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  1. 2020-05-01 16:27 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I have another 50% bollocks bollocks coming in, but I ignore all of those, so don't need to spend too much time on it.Plus bollocks bollocks my assistant responds to while journalistic bollocks our comms department takes care of.Leaving only 80% of bollocks to deal with.
  2. 2020-05-01 16:28 Edward C. Holmes open
    Oh, I'm impressed/jealous - seems you have decent bollocks wall in place. I have to deal with all bollocks myself.
  3. 2020-05-01 16:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, firewalls and bollockswalls were needed pretty quickly. Still need the wall though. Or not.
  4. 2020-05-01 16:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Baric's paper IS really strange - I think he's just miffed because a bunch of amateurs came walking all over his turf.
  5. 2020-05-01 16:31 Edward C. Holmes
    Exactly how I read it.
  6. 2020-05-01 16:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I also had a pretty heated discussion with him on one of the WH committee calls where I mentioned that the RBD would probably lead to high affinity binding and the furin site being active. He essentially said that was all bullshit and I couldn't possibly know... Well.
  7. 2020-05-01 16:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    [this was early January]
  8. 2020-05-01 16:33 Edward C. Holmes open
    We actually did him a MASSIVE favour in writing that article. He would be really in the cross-hairs without it.
  9. 2020-05-01 16:34 Kristian G. Andersen open
    No shit. In fact, one of his co-authors on the 2015 paper emailed me yesterday thanking us for the paper. He's just agrump - you know the type.

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