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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1060 [SLACK_001274] · slack_pm:msg:11069

Date: 2022-01-14 13:18
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recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut

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I an not going to give further information. But as background I can state some known truths - i.e. Fauci and Collins don't personally hand out grants

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2022-01-14 13:16 Edward C. Holmes open

I was quite forceful in my response. I'm not answering any more.
2022-01-14 13:17 Kristian G. Andersen open

Emails out on Feb 4 and Feb 7
2022-01-14 13:17 Kristian G. Andersen open

(with those two documents)
2022-01-14 13:18 Kristian G. Andersen open

These documents will become public at some point and I think we need to figure out a way to get them released before they do. They are _great_ so there are no concerns there, but we all know what happens if DRASTIC picks these up first
2022-01-14 13:18 Andrew Rambaut

I an not going to give further information. But as background I can state some known truths - i.e. Fauci and Collins don't personally hand out grants
2022-01-14 13:18 Edward C. Holmes open

They are only interested in the narrative that Tony told us to think for political reasons. I said that was total nonsense etc.
2022-01-14 13:19 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup - and I'd leave it at that. Once we mention that drafts were circulated on certain dates, people would want to see those.
2022-01-14 13:21 Kristian G. Andersen open

It's public knowledge that a draft was circulated on Feb 4, but I'm not sure about Feb 7. What needs to be very clearis that WE wrote the paper and there were NO edits from e.g., Christian and Ron (and certainly none from Tony orFrancis - I think maybe Jeremy had a few minor edits). The paper was peer reviewed and that obviously led toseveral additional changes to the final version. The original version from Virological is here: https://t.co/nOddbnq2K5
2022-01-14 13:25 Kristian G. Andersen open

Oh, wow - just read through our old Nature rebuttal... Worth a read. [shared file(s): Nature rebuttal.pdf]

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