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[2020-07-28 17:25:40] [Kristian Andersen] Who? [2020-07-28 17:30:47] [Eddie Holmes] The anonymous cowardly fuck that emailed Jon. Have you read/seen 'All the Presidents Men'? Stuff of legend. [2020-07-28 17:33:09] [Eddie Holmes] My point is that if Jon ignores him, will he send it to some other journo? [2020-07-28 17:38:34] [Kristian Andersen] Ah, of course :zany_face:. Yeah, God knows what he does next - I invite him to do whatever and we'll crush that sad motherfucker. [2020-07-28 17:40:01] [Kristian Andersen] I'm 98% certain this is Baric... He'll deeply regret it if he goes public with this information - and I can't really see how that would possibly do him any good? [2020-07-28 17:50:00] [Eddie Holmes] I agree - must be Baric. We have all the documentation to back up what happened and he'd look like a total knob for trying to suppress discussion of lab origins. Anonymous emailing a journo is so, so pathetic. Even Jeremy told me that the email was "total bollocks". [2020-07-28 17:53:37] [Kristian Andersen] It's really sad. It would be kinda funny if he tried to get this out - we'd turn the attention right back on him trying to suppress proper science and inquiry. It would make him look really bad... [2020-07-28 18:00:02] [Eddie Holmes] Really bad [2020-07-28 18:34:57] [Kristian Andersen] Sneaky thought.... Should we go on the attack? We could raise this issue with Clare since this is a clear and direct breach of confidentiality of the review process. [2020-07-28 18:38:16] [Kristian Andersen] I could forward the email as coming "from a reporter disclosing confidential information from the review process". [2020-07-28 18:38:49] [Kristian Andersen] (Jon would not be named/implicated) [2020-07-28 18:45:23] [Kristian Andersen] Let me sleep on this - but I think this is what we should do. Clare would know exactly who this person is and it would prevent/mitigate future bs from this person [2020-07-28 19:31:36]