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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.18 [SLACK_000232] · slack_pm:msg:00185

Date: 2020-05-10 14:08
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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Here's the story - front page. It's about the pangolin paper! Apparently one of the authors has a link to the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences so they get to invoke the Red Army! Where the Chinese military training stealthpangolins? We need to know.'Explosive revelation' = reading the paper.'Fine print' = the acknowledgments [shared file(s): 1273399985.pdf]

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2020-05-10 14:08 Edward C. Holmes

Here's the story - front page. It's about the pangolin paper! Apparently one of the authors has a link to the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences so they get to invoke the Red Army! Where the Chinese military training stealthpangolins? We need to know.'Explosive revelation' = reading the paper.'Fine print' = the acknowledgments [shared file(s): 1273399985.pdf]
2020-05-10 14:08 Edward C. Holmes open

I'm going to enjoy Yi Guan's response.
2020-05-10 14:45 Robert F. Garry open

Thanks for sharing Eddie - so much nonsense. Main problem is it will be like crack cocaine on steroids to the conspiracy theorists lurking in the underbelly of the Internets- the same 5% that caused Mikovits' book to sellout onAmazon.
2020-05-10 15:00 Robert F. Garry open

OTOH If you ignore it - it may well go away - they literally had ABSOLUTELY nothing to pin on you other than you have done some important scientific work with Chinese scientists.
2020-05-10 15:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

OMG this is so hilariously dumb.

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