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1. 2021-06-09 17:03 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Bob / Eddie (and Andrew - but I assume he's :zzz:) - any chance the two of you would have time to take a quick lookat a document I'm preparing for Jim / NYTimes. It's about recent events and it's the only interview I'll take, so just want to make sure I don't get anything wrong.
2. 2021-06-09 17:03 Edward C. Holmes open
   Sure, pass it on.
3. 2021-06-09 17:04 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Thanks - just shared the doc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F7T48AATRUu2ItnzDqIBaakxDYSVGWlwAXYzAZz7dhU/edit?usp=sharing
4. 2021-06-09 17:35 Edward C. Holmes open
   Looks good. A few things: (i) our Nature Medicine article was not an official policy document or an official statement -it was a just a scientific paper by a group of scientists; (ii) he is focused on one line in the paper but we also clearly say that is 'currently impossible' to prove or disprove other theories so were obviously open to more data and changing evidence; (iii) might say that the pangolin data - which coincidentally appeared at the same time because Iwas an author on the Lam et al. paper - was very helpful in suggesting a natural origin; (iv) it's ludicrous to suggest that our paper shut down research into a lab escape as the govt bodies were obviously still going on with this. Ifscientists want to publish counter data/evidence they had ever right to. We're not stopping them. We don't control and police the whole field. We are being assigned some sort of power that we just don't have!!
5. 2021-06-09 17:37 Kristian G. Andersen
   Very good, thanks Eddie. Yeah, it's ludicrous to suggest we somehow shut down the conversation - come on! Race to the bottom.
6. 2021-06-09 17:41 Edward C. Holmes open
   Agreed. That point needs to be made very clearly and very strongly.

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