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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.94 [SLACK_000308] · slack_pm:msg:00960

Date: 2020-07-04 16:51
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration

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You need to read this. I knew about the mine story (it's in a PhD thesis). The key mistake is that they imply that RaTG13/4991 is the direct ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 which it clearly isn't. And if we except that it suggests that the WIV do not have other bat viruses that could have led to SARS-CoV-2 through experimental manipulation.

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And if we except that it suggests that the WIV do not have other bat viruses that could have led to SARS-CoV-2 through experimental manipulation.	quoted / not their view	hypothetical conditional framing	asserts

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And if we except that it suggests that the WIV do not have other bat viruses that could have led to SARS-CoV-2 through experimental manipulation.

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hypothetical conditional framing

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2020-07-04 16:18 Edward C. Holmes open

What is happening to the US? Extraordinary.
2020-07-04 16:33 Edward C. Holmes open

http://archive.is/7TCsc
2020-07-04 16:51 Edward C. Holmes

You need to read this. I knew about the mine story (it's in a PhD thesis). The key mistake is that they imply that RaTG13/4991 is the direct ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 which it clearly isn't. And if we except that it suggests that the WIV do not have other bat viruses that could have led to SARS-CoV-2 through experimental manipulation.
2020-07-04 17:07 Edward C. Holmes open

Ebright talking his usual nonsense. People always forget about RmYN02 and why would you passage a virus that you already think might cause human pneumonia?

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