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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.920 [SLACK_001134] · slack_pm:msg:09550

Date: 2021-06-04 15:52
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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I've seen this behavior before - no compunction against lying - loves the spotlight - massive [undeserved] ego. She'llfly too close to the sun and the wings will melt - the crash will be hard - the problem is she can do and is doing a lot -a lot - of damage along the way.

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2021-06-04 15:21 Edward C. Holmes open

She also asked Nick Loman on Twitter if I was an original author on the Nature paper. She's bloody evil.
2021-06-04 15:24 Edward C. Holmes open

Thanks Bob! She's spectacularly stupid. Look at the Boston Magazine: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-06-05 at 7.46.09 am.png]
2021-06-04 15:27 Edward C. Holmes open

She claims that the pangolin virus may have been contracted from their smugglers. So, in 2019 before the pandemic started smugglers in southern China in were infected by a virus that is related to, but not the same as, SARS-CoV-2, and then infected pangolins.
2021-06-04 15:30 Edward C. Holmes open

Totally WRONG to say that the Lam et al. paper just uses the first paper's (Liu et al....published before the pandemic) data.
2021-06-04 15:52 Robert F. Garry

I've seen this behavior before - no compunction against lying - loves the spotlight - massive [undeserved] ego. She'llfly too close to the sun and the wings will melt - the crash will be hard - the problem is she can do and is doing a lot -a lot - of damage along the way.
2021-06-04 15:53 Robert F. Garry open

Long game - the tide will turn - may sound trite even a bit arrogant - BUT we have science on our side. Of that I'm confident.
2021-06-04 16:02 Edward C. Holmes open

Me too Bob. Just makes my blood boil. Anyway, I'm going to ignore that journo.
2021-06-04 16:07 Robert F. Garry open

Another common trait of this phenotype - they can get journos to write love letters. [shared file(s): A virus hunterfaces the big one_ Ebola - The Washington Post.pdf]
2021-06-04 16:12 Kristian G. Andersen open

This made me fall over... :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-06-04 at 4.12.20 PM.png]

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