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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.16 · slack_pm:msg:00161

Date: 2020-05-06 20:23 (hour precision)
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recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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And I'm pretty glad we did - because at least we then have some _actual_ ammo to fight these plonkers. I really don't understand what the journalist is trying to do - it's so dumb I wouldn't even respond.

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2020-05-06 20:21 Kristian G. Andersen open

Reading that email, are they daft? That's really dumb
2020-05-06 20:22 Edward C. Holmes open

Yes, really, really dumb.
2020-05-06 20:23 Kristian G. Andersen open

"we were some of the very first people to actually raise the lab escape issue" - we were _the_ first to take this seriously - and so we did. And our conclusions are solid and, importantly, stick 100% to the science.
2020-05-06 20:23 Edward C. Holmes open

Exactly! SLACK_000230
2020-05-06 20:23 Kristian G. Andersen

And I'm pretty glad we did - because at least we then have some _actual_ ammo to fight these plonkers. I really don't understand what the journalist is trying to do - it's so dumb I wouldn't even respond.
2020-05-06 20:23 Edward C. Holmes open

I'm not responding. The University are going to issue a statement.
2020-05-06 20:23 Kristian G. Andersen open

Even better. They have nothing.
2020-05-06 20:23 Kristian G. Andersen open

.. the kind of shit we have to deal with though... Geez. :face_with_rolling_eyes:
2020-05-06 20:23 Edward C. Holmes open

I know...for trying to do the right thing. Fuck me.

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