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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.277 [SLACK_000491] · slack_pm:msg:02882

Date: 2020-11-24 15:41
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis

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As if on cue - this evening - Chan trying and failing to make a point about Yan, "Yan did not have a smoking gun for lab origins. Yet, her 1st Sep 14 preprint about SARS2 being an intentionally released bioweapon went viral. Can someone remind me of Chan's smoking gun?

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As if on cue - this evening - Chan trying and failing to make a point about Yan, "Yan did not have a smoking gun for lab origins.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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As if on cue - this evening - Chan trying and failing to make a point about Yan, "Yan did not have a smoking gun for lab origins.

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2020-11-24 15:38 Edward C. Holmes open

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3110765/chinas-bat-woman-virologist-rules-out-covid-19-virus-fresh-tests
2020-11-24 15:41 Robert F. Garry

As if on cue - this evening - Chan trying and failing to make a point about Yan, "Yan did not have a smoking gun for lab origins. Yet, her 1st Sep 14 preprint about SARS2 being an intentionally released bioweapon went viral. Can someone remind me of Chan's smoking gun?
2020-11-24 15:44 Kristian G. Andersen open

Chan's smoking gun is in here: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/09/alina-chan-broad-institute-coronavirus/
2020-11-24 15:44 Kristian G. Andersen open

It's really really really dumb
2020-11-24 15:44 Kristian G. Andersen open

(a restriction site present a million times all across the genome
2020-11-24 15:48 Edward C. Holmes open

Just had a look at her tweets as my blood pressure readings have been good lately. She's all over the place. I don't see any logic to it. Just seems to be a set of shotgun objections.

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