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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.861 [SLACK_001075] · slack_pm:msg:08963

Date: 2021-05-24 15:32
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recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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I might have been able to do a little convincing yesterday morning to make him a little more confident in that statement - good! His team was pushing on him pretty hard to come out and say that natural emergence is _much_ more likely - I'm glad he did!

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2021-05-24 15:28 Edward C. Holmes open

https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1396913345815617539?s=20
2021-05-24 15:29 Edward C. Holmes open

Tony!
2021-05-24 15:30 Robert F. Garry open

THANKS For clarifying that TF!
2021-05-24 15:32 Kristian G. Andersen

I might have been able to do a little convincing yesterday morning to make him a little more confident in that statement - good! His team was pushing on him pretty hard to come out and say that natural emergence is _much_ more likely - I'm glad he did!
2021-05-24 15:33 Edward C. Holmes open

Huge!
2021-05-24 15:34 Robert F. Garry open

Agreed!
2021-05-24 15:34 Kristian G. Andersen open

All of this is so fucking dumb. Glad to see David and Andrew hammering the "it's conspiracy" really hard on Twitter too :wink:
2021-05-24 15:35 Kristian G. Andersen open

It really is important - the issue isn't about lab leak, it's about that they _must_ have had the virus prior to the pandemic, which (a) is hugely unlikely and (b) there's absolutely zero evidence for - in fact, the evidence quite strongly suggest they didn't!

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