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Date
2021-04-03 15:30
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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And - what do you think? Could Yuri-freeze your pet's head-Deigin be the inspiration for "Noam Heller, a brilliant researcher exploring new technologies to reverse-age cancer and other cells." This seems like to be too much asimilarity to just be a "coincidence."

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  1. 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.
  2. 2021-04-03 14:51 Kristian G. Andersen open
    It's interesting how all the biggest idiots are authors... I see a pattern.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 2021-04-03 15:30 Robert F. Garry
    And - what do you think? Could Yuri-freeze your pet's head-Deigin be the inspiration for "Noam Heller, a brilliant researcher exploring new technologies to reverse-age cancer and other cells." This seems like to be too much asimilarity to just be a "coincidence."
  6. 2021-04-03 15:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    That's hilarious
  7. 2021-04-03 15:39 Edward C. Holmes open
    The difference between us and Metzl is that we would all agree it is a lab escape if there were convincing scientific evidence for it
  8. 2021-04-03 15:40 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Correct. And we continue to look very hard for it - it's just, well, there's nothing....
  9. 2021-04-03 15:40 Robert F. Garry open
    The problem of course is that there are :clown_face: like Asher (that Fox News interview with the Super-Soldiersabove is really something to watch) that think yeah super villain virologist, Communist china, scary BSL-4 labs, world domination - all adds up.

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