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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.952-953 [SLACK_001166] · slack_pm:msg:09910

Page text: p.952, p.953 · original PDF

Date
2021-06-20 16:42
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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He's totally lost it. His paper is clearly racist.

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  1. 2021-06-20 16:41 Edward C. Holmes open
    What happened? I'm out of town for a few days.
  2. 2021-06-20 16:41 Kristian G. Andersen open
    JB being JB - King of DRASTIC.
  3. 2021-06-20 16:42 Edward C. Holmes
    He's totally lost it. His paper is clearly racist.
  4. 2021-06-20 16:43 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yup.
  5. 2021-06-20 16:43 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Which was pointed out to him. Repeatedly. Yet - :man-shrugging:. In his words "I'll take the heat" (I pointed to out this wasn't about him, but :man-shrugging:)
  6. 2021-06-20 16:48 Edward C. Holmes open
    Such a stupid thing to do. He could have raised these points without all the accusations.
  7. 2021-06-20 16:49 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yup. And concluded - "It'd be really helpful if the samples were still available and full genomes could be produced". But no - he finishes on how this is a failure of science because the Chinese scientists are lying bastards.

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