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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.706 [SLACK_000920] · slack_pm:msg:07407

Date: 2021-04-15 07:31
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration Natural origin / zoonotic spillover Proximal Origin paper

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"Holmes, the virologist at the University of Sydney, has collaborated closely with researchers in China and co-authored a highly cited Nature Medicine paper supporting the natural origin theory in March 2020. Bostickson has dubbed him a "Chinese puppet," and others have suggested that Holmes, with researchers working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology including Shi Zhengli, conspired to keep the origins of the pandemic a secret. Holmes has blocked many of the Drastic members on Twitter because member's tweets have descended into personal attacks." Well this is in fact shit. Ryan is from Sydney right?

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"Holmes, the virologist at the University of Sydney, has collaborated closely with researchers in China and co-authored a highly cited Nature Medicine paper supporting the natural origin theory in March 2020.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts
Bostickson has dubbed him a "Chinese puppet," and others have suggested that Holmes, with researchers working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology including Shi Zhengli, conspired to keep the origins of the pandemic a secret.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts

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Bostickson has dubbed him a "Chinese puppet," and others have suggested that Holmes, with researchers working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology including Shi Zhengli, conspired to keep the origins of the pandemic a secret.

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2021-04-15 06:52 Kristian G. Andersen open

The WMDs! The WMDs - they found them!!
2021-04-15 06:56 Robert F. Garry open

Same sad story repeats. https://www.cnet.com/features/how-the-coronavirus-origin-story-is-being-rewritten-by-a-guerrilla-twitter-group/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j
2021-04-15 06:59 Kristian G. Andersen open

Reddit said it well - "The COVID19 subreddit removed Drastic content because it does not class the group as "reputable authors with relevant expertise.""
2021-04-15 07:22 Edward C. Holmes open

What a little shit that Jackson Ryan is. I'm going to complain about this.
2021-04-15 07:31 Robert F. Garry

"Holmes, the virologist at the University of Sydney, has collaborated closely with researchers in China and co-authored a highly cited Nature Medicine paper supporting the natural origin theory in March 2020. Bostickson has dubbed him a "Chinese puppet," and others have suggested that Holmes, with researchers working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology including Shi Zhengli, conspired to keep the origins of the pandemic a secret. Holmes has blocked many of the Drastic members on Twitter because member's tweets have descended into personal attacks." Well this is in fact shit. Ryan is from Sydney right?
2021-04-15 07:32 Robert F. Garry open

It's hard to count the number of journalistic ethical standards this violates.
2021-04-15 07:40 Kristian G. Andersen open

He is a little shit. Accusing Angie of lying too.
2021-04-15 07:48 Robert F. Garry open

I'm not certain about Australian libel laws but that paragraph is getting pretty damn close.
2021-04-15 07:58 Edward C. Holmes open

I'm so fucking angry but it's 1 am here and I need to sleep. He says that the attacks on Rosanna are lies but makesno such qualification for me. There will be hell to pay tomorrow. I've never had contact with Shi in my life.

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