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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.827 [SLACK_001041] · slack_pm:msg:08626

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Date
2021-05-17 16:45
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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A letter which proposes his collaborators have lied.

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  1. 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-/
  2. 2021-05-17 16:23 Edward C. Holmes open
    Extraordinary.
  3. 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.
  4. 2021-05-17 16:45 Edward C. Holmes
    A letter which proposes his collaborators have lied.
  5. 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.
  6. 2021-05-17 16:52 Edward C. Holmes open
    Plus why did it come directly from bats?
  7. 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."
  8. 2021-05-17 17:12 Kristian G. Andersen open
    That's exactly right. We should probably involve him in this little project too - they have been looking pretty carefullyat the early events and I know he's been doing some studies to show that there are no signs of culture adaptation.

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