A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it
answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.
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I've told Jeremy who we think it is and he agrees, and that the leaker was likely Ron. I'll see if he is willing to go any further.
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Okay, great. Let me work a little on a draft for Nature. I'm in meetings for a few hours, but I'll get on it a little later today
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And I don't think we want to give Clare the whole narrative we emailed to Jon - other than to say it's completely wrong. We can give it to her if she asks, but I don't think we necessarily want her to email all those details to the reviewer just yet. I don't think Jon will share back what we did yesterday with Deep Throat.
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If Jeremy could mention that the meeting was confidential and the information classified (I believe it was a secure line?) that would be helpful. He should mention we will contact the journal and that the narrative is false (I assumehe won't actually be sharing the email to Jon?)
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2020-07-29 14:00
Andrew Rambaut
I seem to remember that Jeremy actually contacted Nature to tell them it would be coming. Have an email to that effect.
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It was definitely to be on a secure line. I'll email Jeremy and see what he says. Kristian - do you want to draft the email to Clare.
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Don't get me wrong, I want serious revenge on this. I spent much of the night plotting schemes. But, we need to absolutely take the moral high ground all the way through this.
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It also occurs to me that whoever in the meeting leaked it may not have intended it to get out and was just gossipingto his mate. A careful move keeping the meeting participants onside could be good.
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We've got that high ground, but there are probably many more than a few in the Old Coronavirus Guard that don't like us "interlopers" getting so much positive attention [Cohen article a case in point] and have had enough. Looking down from the other side it actually does piss me off that curefinder - class clown and the worse grad student inhistory - was able to lie his way into a position as virus expert on national teevee [karma is a bear though]. Agree with Andrew that the leaker may not be nefarious - just a gossiper - the info just got into the hands of one or a few ofthe righteously pissed off. I agree informing the meeting participants - even if they are not all exactly "happy" with us- would be a decent move.