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1. 2020-08-29 16:02 Edward C. Holmes open
   Fair point about ACE2, but the RBD is very different to SARS-CoV. To me, if the furin cleavage site is active in cell culture then it is also likely to be active in evolution. This also means that she and and a lot of people of lying. Why admit to this stuff in interview if something dodgy had happened? Also, there is absolutely NO intelligence and NOchatter about them doing these experiments. People talk about their work and there would be no reason to cover itup then.
2. 2020-08-29 16:05 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Yup, totally agree - and this to me really is becoming the strongest argument - if they were fiddling around with SARS2 prior to the pandemic, then surely something would have leaked by now? I mean, we have even hadwhistleblowers contact us! Yet, nothing - totally zero. I know China has an oppressive regime, but keeping something like that completely behind closed door just doesn't seem plausible. It's important to keep in mind that one of our arguments against animal culture just disappeared though.
3. 2020-08-29 16:08 Edward C. Holmes open
   Well, we did say 'had not previously been described'. It has now. We were right at the time!
4. 2020-08-29 16:08 Edward C. Holmes open
   Daszak would have known and you bet he's had his emails screened.
5. 2020-08-29 16:09 Kristian G. Andersen
   Yeah, very true - actually, maybe we should file a FOIA... :wink:

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