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Yeah - he may be having a second thought or two about signing on to that really really dumb letter.

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

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

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.
2021-05-17 16:52 Edward C. Holmes open

Plus why did it come directly from bats?
2021-05-17 17:11 Kristian G. Andersen open

This quote from Joel is :fire: "But not having answers to difficult scientific questions shouldn't force us to default to conspiracy theories," he said."It took scientists decades of research to find the chimpanzee host populations for the HIV/AIDS pandemic."