Slack / Private Message Drop — page 229

[Eddie Holmes] Shit, hope you dodge that one Bob. [2020-10-24 21:29:32] [Kristian Andersen] What a load of bollocks... Bob, yeah, hope you dodge that one too - insane how many storms have been heading that way this year. [2020-10-25 06:16:40] [Robert Garry] Thanks - crazy - hopefully Zeta just an annoyance, but sure to chew up an inordinate amt of time. [2020-10-25 06:49:04] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2020-10-24 16:21:44] Yeah. This really sucks. Dumb. I like the note: 'Whereas all authors agreed on the final manuscript, not every author agrees on every point in the paper.' [2020-10-25 06:50:21] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2020-10-24 16:21:44] @Eddie Holmes The only virus I can think of that alters host behaviour to enhance transmission is rabies and that is pretty extreme (and a hardly a subtle action). [2020-10-25 07:19:38] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2020-10-24 16:21:44] COVID has put to light the things that desperately need to change/die. PNAS is on that list. Demagogues too. And Stanford. [2020-10-25 07:41:27] [Robert Garry] I'd add to Kristian's list TV science "experts" [especially those that fake the disease they are spreading disinformation about], outbreak culture in general and - related to the latter - "science" by Zenado/internet [Yan}/twitter {Chan}. The current iterations of CDC, FDA and WHO also need many changes... As for the PNAS article it's about as useful as the "COVID came from snakes or on a meteorite" papers. [2020-10-25 08:14:42] [Kristian Andersen] I'm all for science _messaging_ on twitter, but yes, this whole science _by twitter_ gotta stop - it's ridiculous. I believe a certain Fred Hutch researcher hopefully learned that as well... [2020-10-25 13:52:29] [Robert Garry] More crap - not even subtle... [shared file(s): image.png] [2020-10-25 14:09:28] [Kristian Andersen] Yup, author sharing - big conspiracy. I'm impressed by how all these scientists - and I guess I'm the Kingpin here - all faked COVID origins. Very clever. I can see she claims RmYN02 is fake too and that nobody can verify it's real, because the data isn't available / genome can't be assembled. Which is funny, since I did that over a month ago... https://virological.org/t/on-the-veracity-of-ratg13/551/8