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1. 2020-09-14 23:33 Edward C. Holmes open
   Now, you see I thought that the conspiracy theory was manipulation from RaTG13 itself from miners? It's just SO hard to keep up!
2. 2020-09-14 23:34 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Oh, yes - of course. Followed by accelerated evolution in lungs to create SARS2
3. 2020-09-14 23:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Where it's been hiding out since that mine thingie, I'm not sure - but probably a freezer or something.
4. 2020-09-14 23:35 Edward C. Holmes open
   Does this mean that these conspiracy theorists think the other conspiracy theorists are conspiracy theorists for suggesting that RaTG13 is real? I need to know.
5. 2020-09-14 23:35 Kristian G. Andersen
   Nah, that's just a conspiracy theory.
6. 2020-09-14 23:36 Andrew Rambaut open
   Just saw this - ```In fact, a Chinese BSL-3 lab (the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre), which published a Nature article reporting a conflicting close phylogenetic relationship between SARS- 35 36 CoV-2 and ZC45/ZXC21 rather than with RaTG13 , was quickly shut down for "rectification" . It is believed that the researchers of that laboratory were being punished for having disclosed the SARS-CoV-2--ZC45/ZXC21connection.``` They don't notice that that you are on that paper, Eddie?
7. 2020-09-14 23:37 Edward C. Holmes open
   So, am I in the conspiracy or not?
8. 2020-09-14 23:38 Edward C. Holmes open
   The rectification was for publishing the sequence, not the link to ZC45.
9. 2020-09-14 23:40 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Well, they do cite your CV, so there's that.

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