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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.574 [SLACK_000788] · slack_pm:msg:05997

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Date
2021-03-08 07:05
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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Sure Alex is no Nicholson Baker, who thinks we need to stop trapping bats and - you know - look for coronaviruses. [shared file(s): image.png]

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  1. 2021-03-08 06:51 Kristian G. Andersen open
    That idiot wrote a book? Geez
  2. 2021-03-08 07:01 Robert F. Garry open
    truly - any idiot can write a book.... [shared file(s): image.png]
  3. 2021-03-08 07:05 Robert F. Garry
    Sure Alex is no Nicholson Baker, who thinks we need to stop trapping bats and - you know - look for coronaviruses. [shared file(s): image.png]
  4. 2021-03-08 07:11 Robert F. Garry open
    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3124546/who-readies-covid-19-origins-report-demands-grow-mor e
  5. 2021-03-08 07:12 Robert F. Garry open
    "They also say there is no public record of a highly similar virus to SARS-CoV-2 - which causes Covid-19 - being isolated in any lab. In addition, a genetic analysis published in _Nature Medicine_ last spring found "strong evidence" there was no genetic manipulation of the new coronavirus. Others argue it is possible there were virusesin the lab, or handled during research, that were not publicly known. Genetic engineer Alina Chan, another signatory to the open letter and a researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, said it was important for the WHO team to be clear in the report about their limitations when evaluatinghypotheses. "If they don't have the mandate and they didn't have the access, just say so right away," she said."
  6. 2021-03-08 07:14 Robert F. Garry open
    You know Alina - if you think WHO, NIH (Tony Fauci/Francis Collins) and Eddie Holmes/Kristian Andersen are the BAD GUYS, then maybe biology is not the right gig for you.

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