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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.322 [SLACK_000536] · slack_pm:msg:03393

Date: 2020-12-18 02:19
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: FOIA, records and transparency

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Just been talking (off the record) to this guy from CNN who has been delving deep into the early outbreak. He's also talked to all the intelligence folk. He's says there's absolutely zero evidence for lab escape. Intelligence agrees. Nothing in the early records from China.

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Just been talking (off the record) to this guy from CNN who has been delving deep into the early outbreak.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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Just been talking (off the record) to this guy from CNN who has been delving deep into the early outbreak.

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2020-12-18 01:41 Andrew Rambaut open

https://twitter.com/sai_suryan/status/1339859716613287937
2020-12-18 01:42 Andrew Rambaut open

I am guessing the reviews will come out in the FOI, Eddie?
2020-12-18 01:42 Andrew Rambaut open

```@k_g_andersen @arambaut @edwardcholmes #IanLipkin #RobertGarry: according to @nature, "correspondence submissions are only rarely peer-reviewed." https://go.nature.com/37w0Crb Was "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" peer-reviewed by experts before its publication? #originsofsarscov2```
2020-12-18 02:17 Edward C. Holmes open

I just blocked him. Total low-life. No, I don't we need to show the reviews as these are correspondence with the journal and my University lawyers say that is not included. But it will have us talking about the reviews a guess. Ofcourse, the irony is that the reviewers thought we gave the lab escape theory too much credence...I'm not going tomake life easy for them.
2020-12-18 02:19 Edward C. Holmes

Just been talking (off the record) to this guy from CNN who has been delving deep into the early outbreak. He's also talked to all the intelligence folk. He's says there's absolutely zero evidence for lab escape. Intelligence agrees. Nothing in the early records from China.

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