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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.510 [SLACK_000724] · slack_pm:msg:05328

Date: 2021-02-11 18:13
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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WSJ started it when they published the Chan/Ridley BS. Expected them to take the Trump/China virus line. Yes - WashPost shit editorial opened the shit floodgates. The rest is a mish mash of AntiCCP, antiGOF anti GMO, antiscience agitators.

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2021-02-11 16:12 Edward C. Holmes open

Was he really that important for COVID or is that his self-created myth?
2021-02-11 17:08 Kristian G. Andersen open

WSJ News Exclusive - Possible Early Covid-19 Cases in China Emerge During WHO Mission! ... wait, we investigated and actually those weren't early COVID-19 cases. But fuck it, we already wrote the article,so here we go. :man-facepalming:
2021-02-11 17:14 Edward C. Holmes open

The reporting on the WHO mission has been largely shit.
2021-02-11 17:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

WaPo kinda started the shit slide - but they have been shit about it for quite sometime. Same with WSJ.
2021-02-11 18:13 Robert F. Garry

WSJ started it when they published the Chan/Ridley BS. Expected them to take the Trump/China virus line. Yes - WashPost shit editorial opened the shit floodgates. The rest is a mish mash of AntiCCP, antiGOF anti GMO, antiscience agitators.
2021-02-11 18:15 Robert F. Garry open

Also antianimal research, antiBSL work, and so forth...
2021-02-11 18:16 Robert F. Garry open

It's a pretty toxic gumbo...
2021-02-11 18:21 Edward C. Holmes open

Amy Maxmen tweeted this which is great: [shared file(s): Et97R90VcAEGPDX.jpg]
2021-02-11 18:22 Edward C. Holmes open

A lot of this does seem to be a hangover from the GOF debate of 2012 with added CCP sauce.

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