A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it
answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.
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```The 'phylogenetic' tools used to track these variants were largely developed by evolutionary biologists to study the lineage of organisms. They were designed to construct phylogenetic trees that can ask, for example, whether flightevolved twice in mammals, or whether two large groups of bats began as one that then diverged.Now, co-opted to track a pandemic, the leaves of the phylogenetic tree represent SARS-CoV-2 sequences taken from individuals, and the tree grows with the number of cases ```Now co-opted?
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Haha - "whether flight evolved twice in mammals"
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Here are some of my emails: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-02 at 9.36.14 am.png]
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The best example they could come up with.
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2021-03-01 14:38
Edward C. Holmes
And another. This is like a freedom of information act request: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-02 at 9.38.02am.png]
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The whole thing is complete and embarrassing shit.
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"We will *for sure* address this". Sure. Great emails Eddie - this is embarrassing beyond belief - in Nature, no less.
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They were so transfixed on getting it into Nature that they didn't see what they were doing.
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And good choice taking yourself off the paper - I did the same on Charles' paper too because he wouldn't listen tosense either. Some scientists are so full of themselves by now - but this has to be the worst example I have seen.