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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.584 [SLACK_000798] · slack_pm:msg:06101

Date: 2021-03-10 14:10
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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Would this be ok? "There's a process called 'recombination' that is commonly documented in nature that explains this pattern. Coronaviruses recombine frequently. This is covered in basic virology textbooks and my own monograph: https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Emergence-Viruses-Oxford-Ecology/dp/0199211132"

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2021-03-10 13:31 Edward C. Holmes open

Ha, that's so stupid! :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
2021-03-10 13:48 Kristian G. Andersen open

:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
2021-03-10 13:50 Kristian G. Andersen open

Eddie, can you please (please!) do us a favor and reply? Maybe point her to your book on Amazon on the topic for extra snark.
2021-03-10 13:53 Edward C. Holmes open

On it.
2021-03-10 14:10 Edward C. Holmes

Would this be ok? "There's a process called 'recombination' that is commonly documented in nature that explains this pattern. Coronaviruses recombine frequently. This is covered in basic virology textbooks and my own monograph: https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Emergence-Viruses-Oxford-Ecology/dp/0199211132"
2021-03-10 14:12 Kristian G. Andersen open

Sufficiently snarky - so yes.
2021-03-10 14:14 Edward C. Holmes open

Done. I didn't reply because I have blocked this nutter, but I pasted that tweet in.
2021-03-10 14:15 Kristian G. Andersen open

:fire:
2021-03-10 14:19 Edward C. Holmes open

She is so spectacularly dumb. They just don't understand the basic biology of what they are talking about.

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