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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.623 [SLACK_000837] · slack_pm:msg:06519

Date: 2021-03-23 15:20
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: Intelligence community assessments

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Can somebody please tell me how this is _any_ different from natural emergence? Because it's associated with research activity? A very specific low probability event compared to the alternative scenario... It's so dumb.

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2021-03-23 15:07 Robert F. Garry open

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2021-03-23 15:08 Robert F. Garry open

The DoS materials mention some joint publications. Tell me how that translates to "secret."
2021-03-23 15:13 Edward C. Holmes open

Deranged
2021-03-23 15:19 Kristian G. Andersen open

The idiots are running loose. And not just Jamie. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-23 at 15.19.08.png]
2021-03-23 15:20 Kristian G. Andersen

Can somebody please tell me how this is _any_ different from natural emergence? Because it's associated with research activity? A very specific low probability event compared to the alternative scenario... It's so dumb.
2021-03-23 15:22 Kristian G. Andersen open

Of course Alex is there to give Marc Lipsitch a statistics lecture... Love this guy. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-23 at 15.21.05.png]
2021-03-23 15:23 Edward C. Holmes open

He's so good
2021-03-23 15:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

He really is - and I mean, a PhD student teaching one of the most prominent statisticians (at Harvard...) the basicsof statistics is pretty, well, ballsy.
2021-03-23 15:30 Robert F. Garry open

It's not snarky though - to his credit. It's delivered in a scientific way. Not like the total BS spewed out by a certain Broad Post-Doc [alignment/assembly tweet comes to mind].

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