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Date
2021-05-19 14:34
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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Noticed that and guessed that - It's a really important piece of work. Trying to figure out how best to do it justice inthe Commentary.

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  1. 2021-05-19 13:28 Kristian G. Andersen open
    @Eddie Holmes > I think the laws of free speech allow me to call a bunch of conspiracy theorists conspiracy theorists. I believe you're indeed right. Bloomshitters too.
  2. 2021-05-19 13:38 Robert F. Garry open
    @Eddie Holmes https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/05/19/coronavirus-origins It's remarkable to me how "rationale people" writing about Bloomshit avoid the obvious --- if you think that WIV had SC2 or something very close and didn't tell anyone HOW in the hell is this _not_ a conspiracy theory. Won't responsible commentary orjournalism maybe mention that?
  3. 2021-05-19 14:29 Edward C. Holmes open
    @Eddie Holmes At least some of the comments are reasonable. Molecular Biologist is spot on.
  4. 2021-05-19 14:31 Andrew Rambaut open
    I'm on that paper and did most of the phylogenetic...
  5. 2021-05-19 14:34 Robert F. Garry
    Noticed that and guessed that - It's a really important piece of work. Trying to figure out how best to do it justice inthe Commentary.
  6. 2021-05-19 14:34 Kristian G. Andersen open
    @Eddie Holmes He's basically reiterating what we said in our paper - but people apparently still don't get it.
  7. 2021-05-19 14:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    @Eddie Holmes Why Derek felt the need to write this, I don't know. It's as if anybody with a science background - orno science background - feels qualified to comment on what is an extremely complex issue. Again, these people just can't get past the fact it started in Wuhan.
  8. 2021-05-19 14:36 Kristian G. Andersen open
    @Eddie Holmes (but they apparently don't have any issues with a researcher magically picking up the next pandemic virus from a bat butt. Okay, then - A+ for stats).
  9. 2021-05-19 14:37 Edward C. Holmes open
    @Eddie Holmes And shows why the conspiracy theorists are so keen to attack the pangolin data

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