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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.942 [SLACK_001156] · slack_pm:msg:09803

Date: 2021-06-12 18:08
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis

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This idea that there was some sort of "lab leak suppression campaign" is preposterous and dangerous - I mean, why the FUCK would anybody outside China try to suppress that if we thought it were true? Just doesn't make any sense. People have lost their minds. Period.

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This idea that there was some sort of "lab leak suppression campaign" is preposterous and dangerous - I mean, why the FUCK would anybody outside China try to suppress that if we thought it were true?	quoted / not their view	quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks	questions

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This idea that there was some sort of "lab leak suppression campaign" is preposterous and dangerous - I mean, why the FUCK would anybody outside China try to suppress that if we thought it were true?

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2021-06-12 17:54 Robert F. Garry open

Worldwide conspiracy to suppress the truth about an outbreak when - on Jan31 there were about 10K cases worldwide. The vast majority in China (>9500).
2021-06-12 18:01 Edward C. Holmes open

It's an attack on truth and on science
2021-06-12 18:08 Kristian G. Andersen

This idea that there was some sort of "lab leak suppression campaign" is preposterous and dangerous - I mean, why the FUCK would anybody outside China try to suppress that if we thought it were true? Just doesn't make any sense. People have lost their minds. Period.
2021-06-12 18:10 Kristian G. Andersen open

FWIW Farrar and Fauci did _exactly_ as they were supposed to do - take somewhat outlandish claims very seriously, launched a scientific investigation, alerted the relevant entities, and then stepped back to let science bescience. A+ effort.
2021-06-12 18:27 Edward C. Holmes open

Exactly. Blatant lies are now becoming accepted 'facts'
2021-06-12 18:58 Robert F. Garry open

"Bio-security expert Richard Ebright said that he was 'shocked' Farrar has given such weight to the 'pseudoscientificanalysis'."
2021-06-12 19:06 Kristian G. Andersen open

Bio-security expert Richard Ebright - who has contributed a tremendous amount of scholarly work during this pandemic. Makes me sick. :face_vomiting:

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