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Chan's latest little twitter rant crosses yet another line. [2021-12-19 06:33:38] [Robert Garry] Now she's ginning up controversy over PO1 to sell her shit book. [2021-12-19 07:06:45] [Kristian Andersen] Full ignore.... [2021-12-19 07:48:25] [Kristian Andersen] Also - the usual suspects posted a lengthy comment on the Cell review. Apparently Sri refused to publish it - I wonder why.... https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00991-0#relatedArticles [2021-12-19 08:06:40] [Andrew Rambaut] After all that waffle they just want to add 4 words to our concluding sentence [2021-12-19 08:14:19] [Kristian Andersen] Hah, yeah - apparently so. [2022-01-06 09:35:45] [Andrew Rambaut] Shall we start to think about this piece on assessing risk in virus work we discussed? I think it would be good to push the separation of these issues with the origins debate. [2022-01-06 10:03:45] [Kristian Andersen] Yup - agreed. [2022-01-06 10:08:22] [Andrew Rambaut] One of those Nature perspective pieces like the 2018 pandemic prediction piece? [2022-01-06 10:09:44] [Kristian Andersen] Yup - that's my thinking. [2022-01-06 10:10:17] [Kristian Andersen] That particular paper is very relevant to this discussion, so it could be a follow up to that with a different focus. [2022-01-07 04:59:11] [Robert Garry] So, title something like: Separate Lab Safety assessment from the SARS-CoV-2 origin debate. *OR* Mitigating risks of pathogen research: the SARS-CoV-2 origin debate is a distraction. Could even get more general: Mitigating pandemic risk and talk about stopping fur farming and regular testing of chicken/pig farms, but that would be diffuse and take away from the lab safety issue. [2022-01-07 05:39:53] [Andrew Rambaut]