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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.673 [SLACK_000887] · slack_pm:msg:07058

Date: 2021-04-03 15:39
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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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

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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.
2021-04-03 15:30 Robert F. Garry open

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."
2021-04-03 15:32 Edward C. Holmes open

That's hilarious
2021-04-03 15:39 Edward C. Holmes

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
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....
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.
2021-04-03 15:42 Robert F. Garry open

Or as Alina (note her fascination with magic and Harry Potter) would say - just connect the dots!
2021-04-03 15:43 Robert F. Garry open

I'm convinced that Metzl and the other authors are just setting up their next block-buster novel - notoriety sell books.

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