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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.743-744 [SLACK_000957] · slack_pm:msg:07785

Page text: p.743, p.744 · original PDF

Date
2021-05-03 08:29
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen
Topics
Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis

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Love this bit. I'm pretty darn sure Kristian Andersen took a serious look at SARS2 origin / lab leak before our good friend Yuri. But hey, bad science, right. The piece is shockingly bad - as naive as the questions Wade emailed me in September of last year. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-03 at 8.23.55 AM.png]

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  1. 2021-05-03 08:26 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Jon Cohen just emailed me about it, asking if I was "going to respond". It's laughable - in fact, Wade reached out tome a while back with some questions and I decided not to answer them because "Yeah, he's obviously a big shot, but the questions are just dumb. I'd have to explain all of evolution to him and not just his sub-questions". Just take alook at the questions he emailed over... [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-03 at 8.25.23 AM.png]
  2. 2021-05-03 08:29 Kristian G. Andersen
    Love this bit. I'm pretty darn sure Kristian Andersen took a serious look at SARS2 origin / lab leak before our good friend Yuri. But hey, bad science, right. The piece is shockingly bad - as naive as the questions Wade emailed me in September of last year. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-03 at 8.23.55 AM.png]
  3. 2021-05-03 09:08 Robert F. Garry open
    @Kristian Andersen Please do respond to JC. Wade is a fool - and, an old fool at that, which makes him the worst kind. I'm pretty sure this "origins" tirade is in some way payback for the terrible reviews that his racist human genetics book got from - you know- actual geneticists. Maybe he didn't like your response to his Sept email.
  4. 2021-05-03 09:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, I wrote back to JC - I'm kinda hoping that one day Jon will be the one writing a proper science journalisticexpo on the origins...I let my comms department get back to Wade - might well have pissed him off.
  5. 2021-05-03 09:47 Robert F. Garry open
    "proper science journalistic expo on the origins" - that would be long overdue!

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