COVID-19 Records

Chat message

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.890 [SLACK_001104] · slack_pm:msg:09225

Page text: p.890 · original PDF

Date
2021-05-28 14:22
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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

How are BioEssays able to publish this nonsense?

In context

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

  1. 2021-05-28 13:15 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Here's Relman with his main argument... I'll let you be the judge. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-28 at 1.14.15PM.png]
  2. 2021-05-28 13:57 Robert F. Garry open
    Strikes me as a little odd that Relman would believe that this was a little odd.
  3. 2021-05-28 14:00 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Exactly - but if you have either (a) not looked at the data, or (b) don't understand the data, this would be a very logical standpoint. But here's the problem - it's uninformed.
  4. 2021-05-28 14:03 Robert F. Garry open
    But hey - mission accomplished - they are getting a lot of time in the media. All the stuff that Amy wrote about is nota consideration.
  5. 2021-05-28 14:22 Edward C. Holmes
    How are BioEssays able to publish this nonsense?
  6. 2021-05-28 14:29 Edward C. Holmes open
    I'm genuinely ashamed to be a scientist at the moment. We look like total dick heads. What ever happen to reason?
  7. 2021-05-28 14:36 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Reason, data, evidence, statistics - come on man, opinion is what matters!
  8. 2021-05-28 14:36 Edward C. Holmes open
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-28/aussie-who-investigator-defends-wuhan-study/100175292
  9. 2021-05-28 14:37 Edward C. Holmes open
    Good old Dom

Full conversation →