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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1084 [SLACK_001298] · slack_pm:msg:11286

Date: 2022-02-03 08:31
Type: chat message · slack
mentioned: Robert F. Garry
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis Media strategy and public messaging

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@Robert Garry - you do need to work with your press office to get this particular quote clarified (or at least have clear answers to it), because it's being brought up a lot and it's quite damaging:"In fact, Dr. Garry later stated the consensus on the teleconference was "1. Don't try to write a paper at all . . . or 2. Ifyou do write it[,] don't mention a lab origin as that will just add fuel to the conspiracists.""

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@Robert Garry - you do need to work with your press office to get this particular quote clarified (or at least have clear answers to it), because it's being brought up a lot and it's quite damaging:"In fact, Dr.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts
Ifyou do write it[,] don't mention a lab origin as that will just add fuel to the conspiracists.""	quoted / not their view	quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks	asserts

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Ifyou do write it[,] don't mention a lab origin as that will just add fuel to the conspiracists.""

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2022-02-03 07:35 Kristian G. Andersen open

Got the same. Maybe worth answering "yes" and "no"?
2022-02-03 07:42 Kristian G. Andersen open

As to the letter - @Andrew Rambaut you should pass this on to your university to respond. I assume you won't comply, but it's important to understand that further requests will come. Congress can subpoena foreign nationalsand while they can't do anything directly if you refuse to appear, it could/will have consequences for future travel tothe US.They can't subpoena any of us at the moment (unless they get bipartisan support - we have already looked into that and that seems unlikely), but all of that changes in November.
2022-02-03 08:27 Andrew Rambaut open

And I would answer 'I didn't', 'yes', 'no'
2022-02-03 08:29 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah - simple!
2022-02-03 08:31 Kristian G. Andersen

@Robert Garry - you do need to work with your press office to get this particular quote clarified (or at least have clear answers to it), because it's being brought up a lot and it's quite damaging:"In fact, Dr. Garry later stated the consensus on the teleconference was "1. Don't try to write a paper at all . . . or 2. Ifyou do write it[,] don't mention a lab origin as that will just add fuel to the conspiracists.""
2022-02-03 08:35 Kristian G. Andersen open

I'll get clarification from our outside council on the underlying meaning of some of the verbiage in the letters to us -especially "it is imperative you provide answers under oath" and everything under "to allow a full and complete record of these documents to be produced to the Committee in response to future document requests, please:". Putting these in the letter make me believe they're already thinking about next steps.
2022-02-03 08:38 Kristian G. Andersen open

The letters haven't yet gone online on the committee website, but once they do, I expect a lot of press requests will follow. I just asked my institution how they want to handle those (I'll be on the road all day), but I assume we're just going to ignore them.https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/letter
2022-02-03 08:45 Robert F. Garry open

The biggest issue is that they are/were attributing that advice to Fauci and Collins Of course they are twisting this totally out of context in other ways too. I didn't state that was the "consensus on the teleconference." It wasn't ofcourse. Not even close. Only that that was among some of the advice we got and specifically NOT advice from Fauci or Collins. Advice BTW we clearly did not follow. as we: 1. wrote the paper and 2. mentioned lab origin.
2022-02-03 08:58 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup, all true

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