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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.18 [SLACK_000232] · slack_pm:msg:00188

Date: 2020-05-10 15:00
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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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.

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

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

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.
2020-05-10 15:32 Edward C. Holmes open

Spectacular. Badge of honour to be attacked by the Murdoch press. I'm just going to ignore it.
2020-05-10 15:35 Kristian G. Andersen open

They have absolutely nothing. It's really, really, dumb - as in something seen in the Fox News comments.
2020-05-10 15:39 Edward C. Holmes open

They read the Acknowledgements. There are strong links between The Tele and Fox News. The lead journo - Sharri Markson - was on the Tucker Carlson thing

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