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Oh, but there are so many other fun Bob'toids.... Casinos? Comics? The list goes on... [2020-08-07 16:09:27] [Eddie Holmes] I'm very looking forward to the memoirs Bob (with a new Appendix on Deep Throat). [2020-08-08 06:02:34] [Robert Garry] "how _did_ that get through?" Bad editoring - obviously. . I did manage to convince the journal to take it down in about 24 hours. "looking forward to the memoirs" I'm still working on the title.... [2020-08-08 06:07:36] [Robert Garry] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fauci-quote-hydroxychloroquine/ In-box is filling up with VJ "stuff." [2020-08-08 06:12:04] [Andrew Rambaut] This obsession with hydroxychloroquine is bonkers. Is it all just trying to distort reality so Trump turns out to be right? Of all the things he has put out it is not one that people were particularly fussed about. [2020-08-08 06:51:17] [Kristian Andersen] Yup, it's all about Trump wanting to be right - no matter the consequences. If that involves completely bending the truth, so be it. It's unreal. [2020-08-08 08:35:07] [Robert Garry] Actually it's real and we're all paying the consequences. "Narcissistic personality disorder -- one of several types of personality disorders -- is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism." Trump checks each and every box; https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662 I'd add that it's progressive overtime and often associated with other personality disorders, such as Munchausen's syndrome. The problem is NPD endows certain "super-powers," the main one being the ability to lie - in a way that's convincing to about 40% of the US population - and experience not a shred of guilt. [2020-08-08 09:07:03] [Kristian Andersen] This is really rather excellent... https://virological.org/t/the-sarbecovirus-origin-of-sars-cov-2-s-furin-cleavage-site/536 [2020-08-08 16:53:19] [Eddie Holmes] Alina's lack of understanding of evolution is really disturbing. Evolution has been able to produce people that can argue on Twitter but not 4 amino acids that continually come and go. [2020-08-08 20:11:35] [Kristian Andersen] It's getting really dumb.. Love the "Evolution has been able to produce people that can argue on Twitter but not 4 amino acids that continually come and go" :wink:. I have used a similar phrase many times with journalists - "if it's hard to imagine that a virus could have gained 12 bases, just remember that you and I are currently discussing this 'mystery' via Zoom, beaming our voices to the space and back. Evolution did that".