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"In addition to the inexplicable genetic distance from its sister strains, which screams out for an intermediate relative to complete the phylogenetic picture, SARSnCoVn2 [...]". Fuck it, I'm going to use that in one of my upcoming publications too - the tree SCREAMS out for an intermediate relative!!! [2020-08-18 17:22:16] [Eddie Holmes] I just don't get how BioEssays took this shite. [2020-08-18 17:28:34] [Kristian Andersen] Hah, yeah, dunno. It's fine though - but I just don't understand that people keep ignoring pangolins... So dumb. I agree it was mysterious - really mysterious - but then some pangolin viruses came around and mystery solved. Clearly not Bayesians. [2020-08-19 12:29:31] [Kristian Andersen] Anybody have access to this one? https://www.wsj.com/articles/nih-presses-u-s-nonprofit-for-information-on-wuhan-virology-lab-11597829400 [2020-08-19 13:00:22] [Kristian Andersen] Full text here: http://archive.is/XUaSd [2020-08-19 13:58:42] [Kristian Andersen] Worth a read - IMO some of the requests are reasonable (others definitely not) if EgoHealth wanted their grant reissued. [2020-08-19 14:19:31] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, I read this earlier. EgoHealth just don't help themselves by the ridiculous way they consistently over-hype the importance of their work. [2020-08-19 15:34:34] [Andrew Rambaut] And then don't release the data (I.e. Guinea bat Ebola) [2020-08-19 15:41:18] [Kristian Andersen] Yup. It's really disgusting. BioHip and EgoHealth should have a baby. [2020-08-20 04:37:20] [Robert Garry] Have to say that WSJ doing better reporting than say NBC - the quote from Varmus - wow. What I can't really imagine is the conversations Lauer had - with say the CIA - to lead him to ask Daszak that series of questions. I also suspect that pressure to act on Ego - and try to extract China damaging info - now before the election - is coming from outside NIH. [2020-08-20 06:51:08] [Kristian Andersen] Yup [2020-08-20 07:08:03]