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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.279 [SLACK_000493] · slack_pm:msg:02903

Date: 2020-11-24 19:09
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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I wonder if this is what NEJM meant when they talked about "Research Parasites"... Maybe they had a point :wink:. Actually, no, they didn't - the issue isn't the data here, it's just shit science. Can't totally shield against that.

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2020-11-24 18:48 Kristian G. Andersen open

I still can't believe these idiots went ahead and wrote a full paper - such a giant waste of time.
2020-11-24 18:54 Kristian G. Andersen open

I found another beautiful study from them: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.165936v1.full I'm glad to see their new-found interest in virus genomes. You sorta just take all the stuff you learned in Human Genetics 101 and apply it - because, why waste time building a tree or whatever?
2020-11-24 18:59 Edward C. Holmes open

Who is reviewing these? It ain't me.
2020-11-24 19:06 Kristian G. Andersen open

Not me either... Total junk.
2020-11-24 19:09 Kristian G. Andersen

I wonder if this is what NEJM meant when they talked about "Research Parasites"... Maybe they had a point :wink:. Actually, no, they didn't - the issue isn't the data here, it's just shit science. Can't totally shield against that.

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