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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.827 [SLACK_001041] · slack_pm:msg:08623

Date: 2021-05-17 16:11
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Intelligence community assessments

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The Politifact article has been updated with a few paragraphs from Baric. If he was a politician we'd call it flippingand flopping and trying to play both sides.https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/17/debating-origins-covid-19-virus-what-we-know-what-/

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If he was a politician we'd call it flippingand flopping and trying to play both sides.https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/17/debating-origins-covid-19-virus-what-we-know-what-/	quoted / not their view	hypothetical conditional framing	asserts

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If he was a politician we'd call it flippingand flopping and trying to play both sides.https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/17/debating-origins-covid-19-virus-what-we-know-what-/

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2021-05-17 16:11 Robert F. Garry

The Politifact article has been updated with a few paragraphs from Baric. If he was a politician we'd call it flippingand flopping and trying to play both sides.https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/17/debating-origins-covid-19-virus-what-we-know-what-/
2021-05-17 16:23 Edward C. Holmes open

Extraordinary.
2021-05-17 16:29 Robert F. Garry open

Yeah - he may be having a second thought or two about signing on to that really really dumb letter.
2021-05-17 16:45 Edward C. Holmes open

A letter which proposes his collaborators have lied.
2021-05-17 16:49 Kristian G. Andersen open

From the PolitiFact article: "Furthermore, the first cases of the coronavirus occurred in September when cold temperatures drive horseshoe bats into hibernation" Eh, no, actually, November the likely month (December confirmed). And let's not forget - when were the first casesof SARS discovered? That's right, November.

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