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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.673 [SLACK_000887] · slack_pm:msg:07051

Date: 2021-04-03 14:50
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Intelligence community assessments

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Genesis Code: A Thriller of the Near Future Kindle Edition by Jamie Metzl Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark onthe arm of a young woman found dead in her Kansas City apartment. But when _Star_ reporter Rich Azadian digsdeeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protégée of evangelicalmegapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrandright-wing senator in the next election. When Azadian sets out to prove that MaryLee's death was no accident and she may have been carrying Becker's genetically enhanced baby, the stakes become life itself.

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But when _Star_ reporter Rich Azadian digsdeeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protégée of evangelicalmegapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrandright-wing senator in the next election.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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2021-04-03 14:28 Edward C. Holmes open

'Derision and obfuscation'? I didn't see a word of that in Kristian's thread.
2021-04-03 14:42 Kristian G. Andersen open

Unbelievable - and to even suggest I'm doing this because it would "impact virology", jesus fucking christ. In fact, it'd be great if this was a lab accident - that way our ready-to-go grants on bioterrorism would be a shoo-inwith the NIH. These people...
2021-04-03 14:47 Robert F. Garry open

Data analysis and science-based discussion - if you are a conspiracy theorist, then yes - that's the new derision andobfuscation.
2021-04-03 14:49 Robert F. Garry open

Maybe there should be a rule that you actually have had to work in a lab - any lab - to be an expert of "lab leak." Being a bad Sci-FI writer doesn't cut it for me.
2021-04-03 14:50 Robert F. Garry

Genesis Code: A Thriller of the Near Future Kindle Edition by Jamie Metzl Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark onthe arm of a young woman found dead in her Kansas City apartment. But when _Star_ reporter Rich Azadian digsdeeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protégée of evangelicalmegapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrandright-wing senator in the next election. When Azadian sets out to prove that MaryLee's death was no accident and she may have been carrying Becker's genetically enhanced baby, the stakes become life itself.
2021-04-03 14:50 Robert F. Garry open

Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future Paperback - October 23, 2018 In 2025 America, it's hardly news whena renowned octogenarian scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice, but when _Kansas City Star_ reporter Rich Azadian begins to dig, he discovers that other elderly scientists around the world have alsovanished recently--all terminally ill and receiving the same experimental treatment from a global health company. His investigation leads him to the reclusive Noam Heller, a brilliant researcher exploring new technologies toreverse-age cancer and other cells. Using revolutionary stem cell treatments and snippets of DNA from rare,immortal Arctic jellyfish, his breakthrough promises the genetic equivalent of the fountain of youth.
2021-04-03 14:51 Kristian G. Andersen open

It's interesting how all the biggest idiots are authors... I see a pattern.
2021-04-03 14:54 Robert F. Garry open

Indeed - pattern recognition - it's why you are a successful scientist. It's also the only thing that an IQ test actually measures.
2021-04-03 14:56 Robert F. Garry open

I'm wondering if the genetically enhanced baby in Metzl's novel is anything like the Captain ~America~ China that the CCP army is building.

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