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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.29 [SLACK_000243] · slack_pm:msg:00292

Date: 2020-05-16 04:49
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Furin cleavage site and molecular features

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Me neither, but I could have missed it somewhere in the barrage of "do you believe Fair?" emails. Answer no BTW. "_However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that *any* type of laboratory-based scenario isplausible."_

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"_However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario isplausible."_	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts

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"_However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that *any* type of laboratory-based scenario isplausible."_

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2020-05-16 04:49 Robert F. Garry

Me neither, but I could have missed it somewhere in the barrage of "do you believe Fair?" emails. Answer no BTW. "_However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that *any* type of laboratory-based scenario isplausible."_
2020-05-16 04:54 Robert F. Garry open

This sentence in question is just about as careful and nuanced as it could be. "we do not believe" ergo this is our opinion. "plausible" means: sure we can't rule out that the Red Army created this in a lab with help from 9 foot tallgreen spacewomen, but sticking to reality it's very unlikely.

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