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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1101 [SLACK_001315] · slack_pm:msg:11475

Date: 2022-04-01 18:01
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration Biosafety and biosecurity

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Definitely not. But here's the thing - the work at the WIV is _exactly_ why we considered the lab leak in the first place! I knew about all the work in BSL-2 - chimeric viruses, cultures, etc - but it seems like Ian didn't. Plus, no GOF at the WIV.

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But here's the thing - the work at the WIV is _exactly_ why we considered the lab leak in the first place!	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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But here's the thing - the work at the WIV is _exactly_ why we considered the lab leak in the first place!

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2022-04-01 17:37 Andrew Rambaut open

Can't see anything... [shared file(s): image.png, image.png, image.png]
2022-04-01 17:40 Andrew Rambaut open

Looking at the edits now (in case there was anything added and removed). Actually Ian made a lot more edits than Iremembered...
2022-04-01 17:45 Kristian G. Andersen open

Oh yeah, he actually did - quite a number of them pretty good. Important to get that right - because that's definitely not what I remember.As for the GOF though, he's lying. We also have this: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 17.40.44.png]
2022-04-01 17:55 Andrew Rambaut open

Yeah but we probably don't want to say 'he didn't warn us' because that just sounds like we didn't know or didn't agree.
2022-04-01 18:01 Kristian G. Andersen

Definitely not. But here's the thing - the work at the WIV is _exactly_ why we considered the lab leak in the first place! I knew about all the work in BSL-2 - chimeric viruses, cultures, etc - but it seems like Ian didn't. Plus, no GOF at the WIV.
2022-04-01 18:27 Robert F. Garry open

Some of the nastiest shit out of Alina - hard to believe Broad tolerates this. Parking it here. This is at least 30 Kristian tweets in 2 days. Unbelievable. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 8.24.44 PM.png, Screen Shot 2022-04-01at 8.23.57 PM.png, Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 8.23.40 PM.png, Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 8.22.44 PM.png, Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 8.22.13 PM.png, Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 8.21.51 PM.png]

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