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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.615 [SLACK_000829] · slack_pm:msg:06428

Date: 2021-03-22 10:46
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Vaccines

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Crap and bullshit are hard to counter with calm dispassionate science. Very disappointed that when faced with Alina's wall of crazy and it's DISINFORMATION that Jessie shrugs and calls discussion of SC2 as a "vaccine for abioweapon" "deserved intelligent discussion." This is playing with fire. Move beyond politics my ass. If Trump were still President there is a very good chance - based on today's discussion and editorials in two major US"newspapers" that he and Pompeo would have already started military action against China.

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Very disappointed that when faced with Alina's wall of crazy and it's DISINFORMATION that Jessie shrugs and calls discussion of SC2 as a "vaccine for abioweapon" "deserved intelligent discussion." This is playing with fire.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks	asserts

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Very disappointed that when faced with Alina's wall of crazy and it's DISINFORMATION that Jessie shrugs and calls discussion of SC2 as a "vaccine for abioweapon" "deserved intelligent discussion." This is playing with fire.

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2021-03-22 09:39 Robert F. Garry open

!channel It gets worse: [shared file(s): Opinion _ Did covid-19 escape from a Wuhan lab_ The WHO report can't bethe final word. - The Washington Post.pdf]
2021-03-22 10:08 Kristian G. Andersen open

Twitter is on fire with scientists pushing for the lab leak theory too. Unlike everybody else, we can just sit and wait for that report and then amplify the message...
2021-03-22 10:20 Kristian G. Andersen open

".... deserves intelligent discussion" [Links to tweet about bioweapons programs] [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-22 at 10.17.02.png]
2021-03-22 10:23 Andrew Rambaut open

Major mistake by WHO not getting that report out
2021-03-22 10:46 Robert F. Garry

Crap and bullshit are hard to counter with calm dispassionate science. Very disappointed that when faced with Alina's wall of crazy and it's DISINFORMATION that Jessie shrugs and calls discussion of SC2 as a "vaccine for abioweapon" "deserved intelligent discussion." This is playing with fire. Move beyond politics my ass. If Trump were still President there is a very good chance - based on today's discussion and editorials in two major US"newspapers" that he and Pompeo would have already started military action against China.
2021-03-22 10:59 Robert F. Garry open

Bush II had way less "evidence" than this for taking out Saddam Hussein.
2021-03-22 11:00 Kristian G. Andersen open

Like Iraq, the US is now just making up evidence to suit their agenda. Hard evidence apparently not required - and alot of prominent scientists seem to agree. Kinda sad, really.
2021-03-22 11:11 Robert F. Garry open

The prominent scientists - like JB and ML - agreeing is the problem. Hard to dismiss them purely as cranks, but it's their bad priors in the way. Which leads me to suggest that this is pretty serious - WHO needs to consider releasing it's report immediately - either that or someone in the know needs to leak the story about Eddie's raccoon dogs and the grate.

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