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1. 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.
2. 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]
3. 2021-03-23 15:23 Edward C. Holmes open
   He's so good
4. 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.
5. 2021-03-23 15:30 Robert F. Garry
   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].
6. 2021-03-23 15:31 Robert F. Garry open
   ballsy>>>snarky
7. 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
8. 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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