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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.673-674 [SLACK_000887] · slack_pm:msg:07060

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Date
2021-04-03 15:40
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Biosafety and biosecurity

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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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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. own voice, substantive speaker_own asserts

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  1. 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."
  2. 2021-04-03 15:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    That's hilarious
  3. 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
  4. 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....
  5. 2021-04-03 15:40 Robert F. Garry
    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.
  6. 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!
  7. 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.
  8. 2021-04-03 15:44 Edward C. Holmes open
    Must be a book, with a movie option
  9. 2021-04-03 15:55 Robert F. Garry open
    Baker, Rowanson, and Ridley all fit that author mold. Then there are the ones on the take. That's Li-Meng Yan ofMiles Gao/Steve Bannon fame and Matt Pottinger, who it does not take to much effort to link to Peter Thiel [not tomention Jeffery Epstein] and other Trumpist White Surpremacists/I never want to die Billionaires.

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