Chat message

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.846 [SLACK_001060] · slack_pm:msg:08787

Date: 2021-05-20 11:36
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

Recipients on this medium are inferred from channel membership, not per-message addressing.

"Possible crew" making declarative statements sans data or just lying (Alina), proposing unfalsifiable, unknowableand highly unlikely scenarios (Relman), or referring - like the lunatic he is - to only one scenario involving bats without regard for the possibility of an intermediate via wildlife or the wildlife trade (eDim).

In context

A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.

2021-05-20 11:20 Kristian G. Andersen open

Good quotes from the "very unlikely" crew. Between you, Joel, and myself, I think we cover the main points pretty well.
2021-05-20 11:36 Robert F. Garry

"Possible crew" making declarative statements sans data or just lying (Alina), proposing unfalsifiable, unknowableand highly unlikely scenarios (Relman), or referring - like the lunatic he is - to only one scenario involving bats without regard for the possibility of an intermediate via wildlife or the wildlife trade (eDim).
2021-05-20 11:38 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/two-more-coronaviruses-can-infect-people-studies-suggest :boom:
2021-05-20 11:43 Robert F. Garry open

https://watermark.silverchair.com/ciab456.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9C[...]JDE9Qn TqteAw8_ngIKmAsuC-HjIlyGf9kZbKZ4YCKNss5dLow9GvR7x4
2021-05-20 11:52 Robert F. Garry open

Deep Throat's quotes in the Science article about the 2 Covs makes me want to vomit.

Full conversation →