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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.175 [SLACK_000389] · slack_pm:msg:01810

Date: 2020-09-16 20:03
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recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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Daszak even says that the conspiracy theorists won't be happy....I agree, but by calling them 'conspiracy theorists'he automatically undermines his claim to be going into the investigation with an 'open mind'.

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2020-09-16 19:49 Edward C. Holmes open

Will only add fuel to the conspiracy theories. REALLY DUMB!
2020-09-16 19:50 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, that really doesn't make any sense - that's fishy as hell
2020-09-16 19:54 Edward C. Holmes open

I've no idea what they were thinking. Plus, he's not the best person to do it scientifically.
2020-09-16 19:56 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, really seems dumb - definitely not the right person to do this no matter what.
2020-09-16 20:03 Edward C. Holmes

Daszak even says that the conspiracy theorists won't be happy....I agree, but by calling them 'conspiracy theorists'he automatically undermines his claim to be going into the investigation with an 'open mind'.
2020-09-16 20:11 Edward C. Holmes open

Stupid own goal.
2020-09-16 20:14 Kristian G. Andersen open

We had our kick-off meeting with this new NIH CREID network today, which Peter is part of. I couldn't help but reference our 2018 Nature commentary right after his talk... He spend a lot of time saying how we'll "predict and prevent the next pandemic", I basically said "let's get real". He's so full of himself.
2020-09-16 20:15 Kristian G. Andersen open

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2020-09-16 20:15 Kristian G. Andersen open

:hankey:

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