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It's Africa's problem/it's the China virus, they eat monkeys/they eat bats, it only kills homos, Haitians, hookers and heroin addicts/it only kills old and sick people, wear a condom/wear a mask... [2020-09-29 05:04:55] [Robert Garry] A little more deja vu involving a familiar character, vaccines, viruses and a scandal. https://retractionwatch.com/202 0/09/29/the-doctor-who-fooled-the-world-an-excerpt-from-brian-deers-new-book-about-andrew-wakefield/ Deer is the reporter who relentlessly pushed a relunctant Richard Horton/Lancet to finally retract the Wakefield fraud. [2020-09-29 14:08:34] [Eddie Holmes] Did you know that Peter Daszak worked for Andrew Wakefield for a while? [2020-09-29 14:37:57] [Robert Garry] I was looking for the jawdrop icon but the vomit one will do as well. I guess that's where the Grand Wizard learned the power of hype. [2020-09-29 14:39:27] [Robert Garry] Truth stranger than fiction... [2020-09-29 15:13:21] [Eddie Holmes] Oh yes. Shame more people don't know about it. [2020-09-30 05:03:29] [Robert Garry] 1. Crohn's disease after in-utero measles virus exposure. Ekbom A, Daszak P, Kraaz W, Wakefield AJ. Lancet. 1996 Aug 24;348(9026):515-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)04429-7. PMID: 8757154 2. Detection and comparative analysis of persistent measles virus infection in Crohn's disease by immunogold electron microscopy. Daszak P, Purcell M, Lewin J, Dhillon AP, Pounder RE, Wakefield AJ. J Clin Pathol. 1997 Apr;50(4):299-304. doi: 10.1136/jcp.50.4.299. PMID: 9215145 [2020-09-30 05:03:44] [Robert Garry] Someone should write a book... [2020-09-30 10:32:49] [Robert Garry] Anther thing Wakefield taught Daszak was the power of science by press conference: "Although the paper said that no causal connection had been proven, before it was published, Wakefield made statements at a press conference and in a video news release issued by the hospital, calling for suspension of the triple MMR vaccine until more research could be done. This was later criticized as science by press conference." From WIKI [2020-09-30 16:36:54] [Kristian Andersen] Large ex vivo and in vivo study from Baric's group on D614G. The effect is there, but it's very subtle IMO... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.28.317685v1 [2020-09-30 16:56:26]