Slack / Private Message Drop — page 171

[2020-09-15 17:48:55] [Eddie Holmes] Well, well, well. Has Inspector Clouseau seen the light? [2020-09-15 17:49:32] [Kristian Andersen] I doubt it - but she's likely seeing some of her mistakes... [2020-09-15 17:50:21] [Kristian Andersen] I'm getting so many fucking questions about this shit - from journalists, colleagues, etc. I'm going to do a short Twitter thread on the main scientific claims and turn off comments - then that'll be all I have to say on the matter, book closed. [2020-09-15 17:52:37] [Eddie Holmes] Seems wise. You could mention that the Wu et al. Nature paper was submitted before anyone had heard about RaTG13 so it could never have been included in that study anyway. [2020-09-15 17:53:23] [Eddie Holmes] You might mention what a monumental waste of everyone's time this is. [2020-09-15 17:53:27] [Kristian Andersen] I'm not even going to go there - I have no concerns about the bat or pangolin data so simply ignoring all of that is just dumb (well, that data invalidates their findings, so of course, I get it). [2020-09-15 17:53:48] [Eddie Holmes] More than dumb: dishonest. [2020-09-15 17:56:28] [Kristian Andersen] I wonder what Bannon promised her (and honestly - I'm a little surprised by how extremely obvious the connection is here - it took me a five second google search to figure it out... At least hide that part somewhat) [2020-09-15 17:58:25] [Eddie Holmes] It has played into our hands beautifully [2020-09-15 18:06:57] [Eddie Holmes] Amusing that Inspector Clouseau still finds time to moan about the Proximal Origins paper even though it seems we were right all along? [2020-09-15 18:26:54] [Eddie Holmes] Enjoyed the thread. [2020-09-15 18:41:16] [Kristian Andersen] There will be no further comments. Promise... [2020-09-15 19:06:39]