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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.717 [SLACK_000931] · slack_pm:msg:07525

Date: 2021-04-19 13:23
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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Totally predictable they would come up with something like that following the Telegraph article and of course theyby-pass the main issue. But the article about Angie is insane. Just mad. All we've had from that lot is slander. They're clearly suffering from some delusional disorder.

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2021-04-19 13:23 Edward C. Holmes

Totally predictable they would come up with something like that following the Telegraph article and of course theyby-pass the main issue. But the article about Angie is insane. Just mad. All we've had from that lot is slander. They're clearly suffering from some delusional disorder.
2021-04-19 13:35 Robert F. Garry open

AS eDim says it's all about the narrative. Science be damned.
2021-04-19 13:51 Robert F. Garry open

Good to see the Telegraph article cloned into other British Newspapers. Angie called Yuri's manifesto Turner Diaries-ese. Turner Diaries is a fictional portrayal of a dystopian future apparently intended as some sort of aspirational blueprint for White Supremacists. It's probably not the comparison I would have made {but I don't trust myself with a "loaded twitter account" either so who knows}. OTOH Yuri and his Lab Leak buddies call anyone who published a paper with anyone from China a tool of the CCP. He calls Shi and a host of others liars. Kinda does sound racist to me, too.
2021-04-19 14:06 Edward C. Holmes open

There's an inherent racism in so much of this.
2021-04-19 14:19 Edward C. Holmes open

Who am I a PR machine for? The #1 reaction I've got from the Telegraph story is 'you're not going back to China then'.

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