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Creating a whole lot more email to be FOI'ed [2021-10-13 14:13:15] [Kristian Andersen] Yup. [2021-10-14 09:26:03] [Andrew Rambaut] Thanks for your nice words @Eddie Holmes ! [shared file(s): Image from iOS.jpg] [2021-10-14 12:30:54] [Eddie Holmes] That really was a pleasure [2021-10-18 17:24:42] [Kristian Andersen] I assume some of you might have received this for review as well? Seems like pure propaganda to me... I'm going to decline to review it, but kinda curious to learn what exact animals they actually tested (and when). [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-10-18 at 5.23.32 PM.png] [2021-10-18 19:41:26] [Kristian Andersen] Dunno if y'all listened to the interview with Patrick Vallance: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09yckyr. He talks about the conference call at ~27:30mins. [2021-10-19 00:20:09] [Eddie Holmes] I don't know about you, but I'm totally sick of hearing about that conference call. And fucked if I'm giving in to a bully like Birrell. [2021-10-19 06:52:56] [Kristian Andersen] Yup, same! [2021-10-19 07:30:53] [Robert Garry] Birrell and Chan are totally obsessed with this...it's insanity. [2021-10-19 07:48:04] [Kristian Andersen] We'll let them - it ain't going nowhere. [2021-10-22 16:10:43] [Robert Garry] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan [2021-10-22 16:10:55] [Robert 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 of transparency," 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 on this grant."" [2021-10-22 16:15:12]