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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.114 [SLACK_000328] · slack_pm:msg:01166

Date: 2020-07-28 05:10
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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Well done on the email to JC! The worst of the email from the rona expert who can no longer keep silent is the "digging" paragraph. It's seriously offensive - name another person who has made more contributions to virus evolution/phylogentic analysis than AR, EH and KA??? AR had written a paper on MERS evolution and there were others. What "schooling?" We clearly ignored - properly so as the email to JC points out - the schooling from thetelecon to not mention "lab escape."

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2020-07-28 05:10 Robert F. Garry

Well done on the email to JC! The worst of the email from the rona expert who can no longer keep silent is the "digging" paragraph. It's seriously offensive - name another person who has made more contributions to virus evolution/phylogentic analysis than AR, EH and KA??? AR had written a paper on MERS evolution and there were others. What "schooling?" We clearly ignored - properly so as the email to JC points out - the schooling from thetelecon to not mention "lab escape."
2020-07-28 05:27 Robert F. Garry open

"@Robert Garry did it to boost our Altmetric score. That's a legit move." That will be the ending when they film this whole saga as a Knives-out/Agatha Christie style mystery.
2020-07-28 05:40 Robert F. Garry open

Also totally in to the comet hypothesis. If the aliens sending these viruses on comets are clever enough to put themon comets in the first place, then surely they are clever enough to counter the whole burning up in the atmospherething.
2020-07-28 05:42 Andrew Rambaut open

I took a picture of Neowise above my house. You can see it is still shedding coronaviruses:
2020-07-28 05:46 Robert F. Garry open

That is awesome!

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