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

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

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

She is so spectacularly dumb. They just don't understand the basic biology of what they are talking about.
2021-03-10 14:21 Kristian G. Andersen open

I mean - they should have come across recombination by now if they actually cared about looking at this properly... But I guess that was never the purpose.
2021-03-10 14:23 Andrew Rambaut open

Found some lovely examples of recombinants between B.1.1.7 and other lineages: [shared file(s): group4_snp_plot.png]
2021-03-10 14:24 Andrew Rambaut open

Perhaps that is lab made too?
2021-03-10 14:31 Edward C. Holmes open

You can't argue with people so dumb.