Chat message

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.273 [SLACK_000487] · slack_pm:msg:02844

Date: 2020-11-22 10:03
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

Recipients on this medium are inferred from channel membership, not per-message addressing.

I think we really need to start making _less_ user-friendly software... Here's one of the alignment trolls from yesterday showing that the RmYN02 paper is definitely wrong. Obviously. The issue is - this kind of uninformed (this guy's an MBA) analyses actually manages to get traction and for this onein particular, even a published paper. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-11-22 at 10.00.18 AM.png]

In context

A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.

2020-11-22 09:22 Robert F. Garry open

Virological post is submitted - thanks all!
2020-11-22 09:39 Kristian G. Andersen open

This is a great post - thanks Bob. Now, let's see how the alignment trolls of yesterday will interpret this one... ("it's just a simple BLAST search, right?").
2020-11-22 10:03 Kristian G. Andersen

I think we really need to start making _less_ user-friendly software... Here's one of the alignment trolls from yesterday showing that the RmYN02 paper is definitely wrong. Obviously. The issue is - this kind of uninformed (this guy's an MBA) analyses actually manages to get traction and for this onein particular, even a published paper. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-11-22 at 10.00.18 AM.png]
2020-11-22 10:52 Kristian G. Andersen open

And just to Proximal v2.0 - I'm also keeping a few notes here: https://andersen-lab.com/secrets/data/sars-cov-2-origins/

Full conversation →