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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.886 [SLACK_001100] · slack_pm:msg:09180

Date: 2021-05-27 17:48
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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*No relevant priors?* Clive Hamilton is a professor at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and author of Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World.

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2021-05-27 16:03 Robert F. Garry open

THat's a good idea - one of the few no nonsense types left (Ed Yong waiting for you to get your hands "dirty")- Tell him the Science editorial staff are acting irrationally....:slightly_smiling_face:
2021-05-27 16:44 Edward C. Holmes open

This is extraordinary: https://www.smh.com.au/national/where-did-covid-come-from-the-case-for-a-leak-of-a-virus-engineered-in-a-wuhan-lab-20210526-p57vgt.html
2021-05-27 16:45 Edward C. Holmes open

This statement "In particular, we know from her published work that Shi had successfully been inserting furin cleavage sites into viruses to make them more infective" strikes me a bare-faced lie.
2021-05-27 17:16 Edward C. Holmes open

I can't believe they published this! If I can show that they did not use FCS then I can embarrass this idiot.
2021-05-27 17:48 Robert F. Garry

*No relevant priors?* Clive Hamilton is a professor at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and author of Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World.
2021-05-27 17:56 Kristian G. Andersen open

I don't know of Shi having engineered FCSs - and that article seems like pure fiction, top to bottom, of somebody who's bought into the Wade bullshit.
2021-05-27 17:59 Edward C. Holmes open

It's a disgrace.
2021-05-27 18:02 Kristian G. Andersen open

Bill too? I just don't get it. I really don't. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-27 at 5.58.50 PM.png]
2021-05-27 18:06 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524054/

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