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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.1066-1067 [SLACK_001280] · slack_pm:msg:11126

Page text: p.1066, p.1067 · original PDF

Date
2022-01-20 10:41
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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good suggestions

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  1. 2022-01-20 10:27 Robert F. Garry open
    This Sunday Times will be bad - I think Wade's will be much worse.
  2. 2022-01-20 10:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yup, I think it'll be complete junk - with more junk to come. "completely inaccurate" - I'd say "false" - as it's not really "inaccurate" it's just totally false.
  3. 2022-01-20 10:31 Kristian G. Andersen open
    "I also mention that on a February 1 teleconference you felt a natural scenario to be implausible" This is also false - you did not mention that you felt that a natural scenario was implausible on the call. The quote she's referring to was from a very early email, taken out of context, and did not reflect your opinions on the "origin" question - it's another example of science in progress.
  4. 2022-01-20 10:33 Kristian G. Andersen open
    On that last point, I'd probably stick to a version of Andrew's language - "We provided some initial assessments ofthe plausibility of the various hypotheses and then undertook a more detailed analysis and review of data (including new data from the Pangolins). All of our conclusions were written in our published and peer-reviewed papers (i.e., inNature Medicine and then updated in Cell late last year). All of the emails show the establishment of the hypotheseswe later outlined in the Proximal Origins paper and then the assessment of these based on the available evidence. Opinions simply shifted as the result of analysis and the examination of new data. Since then more data has been published that further supports our conclusions from that initial review."
  5. 2022-01-20 10:41 Robert F. Garry
    good suggestions
  6. 2022-01-20 11:06 Robert F. Garry open
    I'm thinking she is mostly going to quote Andrew and Eddie, but we'll see....
  7. 2022-01-20 11:27 Robert F. Garry open
    So distracting - geez...
  8. 2022-01-20 11:42 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yes - however, we have a grant to write @Robert Garry with a deadline a week from now... :wink:So let's make surewe focus on that - otherwise the conspiracy theorist will actually have been successful in interfering with science!
  9. 2022-01-20 11:43 Robert F. Garry open
    I'm getting there - too much preliminary data - making the hard cuts

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