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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm looking at he sequences correctly all that was done is to fill in 15 nucleotides at the 5' end of the RaTG13 genome. Everything else is 100% the same. The ends are the hardest part right? Thats why many "near-complete" genomes are missing nucleotides at the end, for example Bas-Congo virus, and the Ekpomas. Yet, Alina and the DRASTIC krewe are conflating and combining this very minor change to RaTG13 with her perceived "problems" with all the pango sequences. [shared file(s): image.png] [2020-10-22 12:46:44] [Eddie Holmes] Can something about those alignments be posted on virological? [2020-10-22 12:53:35] [Kristian Andersen] Alina is talking about the pangolin sequences where there's overlap in the data used - as described in Eddie's paper. It's one big nothingburger. I had to unfollow her yesterday - just makes my blood boil listening to this type of complete bull shit. [2020-10-22 13:16:43] [Robert Garry] Yes - seems like Alina's main problem - she got a lot of problems - with is with Xiao et al. Lam et al could not be any more transparent, but Alina likes to cast a wide net. She also had BS about RaTG13, but looks like she took that down. Yeah - the alignments can be posted on Virological - writing some text.... [2020-10-22 13:26:19] [Eddie Holmes] I stopped following her some time ago. I can't stand to even think about her. [2020-10-22 13:27:54] [Kristian Andersen] Oh, she still got her BS about RaTG13 on her Twitter - it's just an amateur talking about stuff she does not understand. Sad really - and again, that whole thread yesterday was just completely over the top. Would have made Cinnamon Jesus proud. [2020-10-22 13:51:13] [Eddie Holmes] I passed yesterday's thread to a few journalists (unblocked specially). So nice to be flippantly accused of mass murder. [2020-10-24 16:21:44] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2020-10-24 16:21:44] PNAS may have hit a new low. I think the data availability statement sums this up perfectly. [shared file(s): Seitz_PNAS.pdf] [2020-10-24 20:12:51] [Robert Garry] Yes - this is nonsense. Wow. [2020-10-24 20:44:15] [Robert Garry] Meanwhile - Ready for 2020 to end [2020-10-24 20:44:21] [Robert Garry] shared file(s): image.png [2020-10-24 21:23:25]