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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.719 [SLACK_000933] · slack_pm:msg:07547

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Date
2021-04-20 06:32
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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It's remarkable to me that a post-doc who bludgeoned her way into the conversation on "origins" by claiming: 1. naively that SC2 has a unusual mutational frequency; 2. is well-adapted to humans; 3. international sequence data bases are filled with fraudulent virus sequences to support a natural origin, and 4. that world-class virologists are engaged in a conspiracy and cover-up/genocide is now somehow an expert in SC2 genomics. :face_vomiting:[shared file(s): Covid-19 Surge in India Risks Breeding Variants the Nation Can't Track - WSJ.pdf]

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It's remarkable to me that a post-doc who bludgeoned her way into the conversation on "origins" by claiming: 1. naively that SC2 has a unusual mutational frequency; 2. is well-adapted to humans; 3. international sequence data bases are filled with fraudulent virus sequences to support a natural origin, and 4. that world-class virologists are engaged in a conspiracy and cover-up/genocide is now somehow an expert in SC2 genomics. :face_vomiting:[shared file(s): Covid-19 Surge in India Risks Breeding Variants the Nation Can't Track - WSJ.pdf] quoted / not their view quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks asserts

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  1. 2021-04-20 06:32 Robert F. Garry
    It's remarkable to me that a post-doc who bludgeoned her way into the conversation on "origins" by claiming: 1. naively that SC2 has a unusual mutational frequency; 2. is well-adapted to humans; 3. international sequence data bases are filled with fraudulent virus sequences to support a natural origin, and 4. that world-class virologists are engaged in a conspiracy and cover-up/genocide is now somehow an expert in SC2 genomics. :face_vomiting:[shared file(s): Covid-19 Surge in India Risks Breeding Variants the Nation Can't Track - WSJ.pdf]

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