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Date
2021-05-05 15:48
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes
Topics
Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration

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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.

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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. quoted / not their view hypothetical conditional framing asserts

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  1. 2021-05-05 15:35 Andrew Rambaut open
    It would be good to get some comments from people who aren't us - though.
  2. 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/
  3. 2021-05-05 15:46 Edward C. Holmes open
    This comment from Daszak is the key one:
  4. 2021-05-05 15:46 Edward C. Holmes open
    • *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.
  5. 2021-05-05 15:48 Edward C. Holmes
    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.
  6. 2021-05-05 15:48 Kristian G. Andersen open
    First time I heard the PBS interview with Relman - did he actually _read_ the report?
  7. 2021-05-05 15:51 Edward C. Holmes open
    He clearly never looked at the Annexes.
  8. 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.
  9. 2021-05-05 16:28 Robert F. Garry open
    It is a lie. It's meant to distract. It's also easier than arguing the science.

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