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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.604 [SLACK_000818] · slack_pm:msg:06318

Date: 2021-03-19 06:15
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recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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... and of course, the 'data' shown in those tweets are meaningless - they're SARS-like viruses, already published (before the pandemic) and are very far from SARS-CoV-2. Totally meaningless (as expected) - Jesse really should know that if he took a quick glance and the data or trees. But maybe he doesn't know how to interpret the data or hedidn't bother to take a look. (or both...)

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2021-03-19 06:12 Kristian G. Andersen open

Not just that - he's _using_ tweets from these conspiracy theorists as evidence to bolster his arguments: https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1372383457108627457?s=20.
2021-03-19 06:15 Kristian G. Andersen

... and of course, the 'data' shown in those tweets are meaningless - they're SARS-like viruses, already published (before the pandemic) and are very far from SARS-CoV-2. Totally meaningless (as expected) - Jesse really should know that if he took a quick glance and the data or trees. But maybe he doesn't know how to interpret the data or hedidn't bother to take a look. (or both...)
2021-03-19 06:20 Kristian G. Andersen open

:thinking_face: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.18.436013v1 (I have previously mentioned that VOCs may have originated in non-human species - and I have mentioned mice specifically - however, I find that pretty unlikely. This is intriguing though....)

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