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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.753 [SLACK_000967] · slack_pm:msg:07887

Date: 2021-05-05 15:46
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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• *Dr. Peter Daszak:* • Yes, I have been speaking to them for 15 years. If they had found a virus that was high, of high interest that they were working on, they would have told me before the outbreak, because that's what we were doing before the outbreak.• We shared information on a weekly basis. Yes, some of them answer up the party chain, but they also are scientists. If there is something that the intelligence agencies know that they could supply to the WHO team, they would supply it and we will look at that.

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2021-05-05 15:35 Robert F. Garry open

Good! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-report-says-covid-originated-in-bats-but-critics-claim-the-study-was-biased Relman is in this interview - and imo - this is probably the GW's best interview. Relman is just going to throwup the same arguments he made here and in the PNAS article.
2021-05-05 15:35 Andrew Rambaut open

It would be good to get some comments from people who aren't us - though.
2021-05-05 15:38 Robert F. Garry open

THat's a real good idea. Maybe some of these folks: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32700664/
2021-05-05 15:46 Edward C. Holmes open

This comment from Daszak is the key one:
2021-05-05 15:46 Edward C. Holmes

• *Dr. Peter Daszak:* • Yes, I have been speaking to them for 15 years. If they had found a virus that was high, of high interest that they were working on, they would have told me before the outbreak, because that's what we were doing before the outbreak.• We shared information on a weekly basis. Yes, some of them answer up the party chain, but they also are scientists. If there is something that the intelligence agencies know that they could supply to the WHO team, they would supply it and we will look at that.
2021-05-05 15:48 Edward C. Holmes open

Daszak is a total charlatan BUT I'd certain he would have known about what was being done at WIV and it talking tohim I'm 100% certain he has no knowledge of anything of note at the WIV. Either that or he's the best liar ever withballs is titanium.
2021-05-05 15:48 Kristian G. Andersen open

First time I heard the PBS interview with Relman - did he actually _read_ the report?
2021-05-05 15:51 Edward C. Holmes open

He clearly never looked at the Annexes.
2021-05-05 15:52 Kristian G. Andersen open

Nope. If people want to disagree with the conclusions, data, or methodology, fine - but to say that there's "no data" very clearly shows that somebody didn't actually look at the report. It's flat out false.

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