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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.623 [SLACK_000837] · slack_pm:msg:06522

Date: 2021-03-23 15:27
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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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.

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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.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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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.

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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 open

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

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].
2021-03-23 15:31 Robert F. Garry open

ballsy>>>snarky
2021-03-23 15:33 Kristian G. Andersen open

I like to do both, although, I probably do snarky more often these days. I think my response to Alina's "alignment<> assembly" was firmly in the latter category
2021-03-23 15:47 Robert F. Garry open

The guy that Pompeo is relying on for his information about WIV is the same guy (Asher) that thinks that pangolinsmated with bats. Jamie is using "information" gathered by Asher and politicized by Pompeo to build all of his littlestraw men.

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