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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.264 [SLACK_000478] · slack_pm:msg:02760

Date: 2020-11-18 20:51
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recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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... I missed that part. I thought it was the Russians - but hey, same thing, right? I can see Alina has gone full-onconspiracy with this too. Good stuff. It'll be hilarious looking back at these tweets in a couple of years.

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2020-11-18 20:39 Edward C. Holmes open

Wiley are now on my banned list.
2020-11-18 20:45 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah, that would never have made it through as a preprint... Yeah, Wiley is junk, junk, junk.
2020-11-18 20:45 Kristian G. Andersen open

Rossana is fucking nuts and just such a giant amateur.
2020-11-18 20:49 Edward C. Holmes open

Totally nuts. I can't believe they got away saying that H1N1 of 1977 was a lab escape from China!!! It was actually ashonky vaccination campaign.
2020-11-18 20:51 Kristian G. Andersen

... I missed that part. I thought it was the Russians - but hey, same thing, right? I can see Alina has gone full-onconspiracy with this too. Good stuff. It'll be hilarious looking back at these tweets in a couple of years.
2020-11-18 20:53 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah! We have Joel to thank for the China emergence of H1N1 :wink: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011184
2020-11-18 20:53 Kristian G. Andersen open

(I know he's been working on SARS-CoV-2 to look at origins - interested to see what he comes up with).
2020-11-18 20:57 Edward C. Holmes open

Somebody had some Twitter correspondence with Jon Cohen and presented all the evidence that 1977 H1N1 was a dodgy vaccine. There was a pretty convincing paper that Jon seemed to buy. I did. I'll see if I can find it.
2020-11-18 20:58 Edward C. Holmes open

Plus, that Nature Addendum makes all the miners story totally out-of-date.

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