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Date: 2021-10-22 16:10
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: EcoHealth Alliance funding and grants Congressional oversight

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"Instead of helping to lead a search for COVID-19's origins, with the pandemic now firmly in its 19th month, the NIH has circled the wagons, defending its grant system and scientific judgment against a rising tide of questions. "It's just another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance oftransparency," said Stanford microbiologist Dr. *David Relman.* "Given all of the sensitivity about this work, it's difficult to understand why NIH and EcoHealth have still not explained a number of irregularities with the reporting onthis grant.""

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"It's just another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance oftransparency," said Stanford microbiologist Dr. David Relman. "Given all of the sensitivity about this work, it's difficult to understand why NIH and EcoHealth have still not explained a number of irregularities with the reporting onthis grant.""	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts

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"It's just another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance oftransparency," said Stanford microbiologist Dr. *David Relman.* "Given all of the sensitivity about this work, it's difficult to understand why NIH and EcoHealth have still not explained a number of irregularities with the reporting onthis grant.""

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2021-10-22 16:10 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan
2021-10-22 16:10 Robert F. Garry

"Instead of helping to lead a search for COVID-19's origins, with the pandemic now firmly in its 19th month, the NIH has circled the wagons, defending its grant system and scientific judgment against a rising tide of questions. "It's just another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance oftransparency," said Stanford microbiologist Dr. *David Relman.* "Given all of the sensitivity about this work, it's difficult to understand why NIH and EcoHealth have still not explained a number of irregularities with the reporting onthis grant.""
2021-10-22 16:15 Robert F. Garry open

Another day another obsessive tweet - documented here: [shared file(s): image.png]
2021-10-22 16:18 Edward C. Holmes open

The answer to her question is nothing
2021-10-22 16:22 Edward C. Holmes open

Wasn't even discussed

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