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SLACK_000230 [Kristian Andersen] And I'm pretty glad we did - because at least we then have some _actual_ ammo to fight these plonkers. I really don't understand what the journalist is trying to do - it's so dumb I wouldn't even respond. [Eddie Holmes] I'm not responding. The University are going to issue a statement. [Kristian Andersen] Even better. They have nothing. [Kristian Andersen] .. the kind of shit we have to deal with though... Geez. :face_with_rolling_eyes: [Eddie Holmes] I know...for trying to do the right thing. Fuck me. [Andrew Rambaut] And you have a married blond woman in your house during lockdown. [Robert Garry] "There is a lot of shit about." We've all seen it, but this is unwelcome and taking it to another level. Sorry Eddie - don't need this. If you are committed to good science and do it you'll piss off a vocal minority. COVID-19 has stirred up a lot of turds (Hooper, Mikovits, Fair) that are floating to the top of the cesspool. "it's so dumb I wouldn't even respond" yes getting your University to respond is a good start. -- an ex-"student" of mine who if very good at media manipulation, once had the WashPost ready to write a defamatory "expose" on our Ebola sequencing paper in Science (if it had existed at the time - think high Altmetric). Harvard's approach was a well-consider point by point rebuttal - I admittedly was more "colourful." WasPost never ran the story. Lesson learned - need to do both. [Andrew Rambaut] Bob is right though. You can basically get your University to just write those facts back at them they are all true and they are all irrelevant. The point is that there is already transparency on grants. [Eddie Holmes] There's been a lot of pushback against the Daily Telegraph and their story is on 'hold'. The Australian Academy of Science are furious and the Prime Minister's office are now involved. A pathetic version of the story was published in the Melbourne version of the paper this morning. I am tagged on that the end and I suspect they are trying to imply that I work with Dr. Shi and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (which I don't). Total nothing story. [shared file(s): 1272319357.pdf] [Kristian Andersen] Total nothingburger on your part - and a great statement from your university. What's that about the database though? I have not heard of that previously. [Eddie Holmes]