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Date: 2020-05-02 05:41
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Proximal Origin paper

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oppps...."One *Nature Medicine paper* further indicated that the pandemic virus shows no signs of having been engineered by scientists, another contention of conspiracy theorists. For one thing, although the researchers note that though the virus binds to a human cellular receptor to initiate an infection, that interaction is not optimal, "strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is not the product of purposeful manipulation," they write."

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oppps...."One Nature Medicine paper further indicated that the pandemic virus shows no signs of having been engineered by scientists, another contention of conspiracy theorists.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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oppps...."One *Nature Medicine paper* further indicated that the pandemic virus shows no signs of having been engineered by scientists, another contention of conspiracy theorists.

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2020-05-02 05:41 Robert F. Garry

oppps...."One *Nature Medicine paper* further indicated that the pandemic virus shows no signs of having been engineered by scientists, another contention of conspiracy theorists. For one thing, although the researchers note that though the virus binds to a human cellular receptor to initiate an infection, that interaction is not optimal, "strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is not the product of purposeful manipulation," they write."
2020-05-02 05:41 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/nih-s-axing-bat-coronavirus-grant-horrible-precedent-and-might-break-r ules-critics-say?fbclid=IwAR3PTMVfjRLD4JmgU77URppHGHPb92o3zYT9nIspa5GwQNjq60TAIrPHrLI

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