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[2020-11-06 16:31:38] [Kristian Andersen] Just got a chance to read Relman's PNAS piece a little more carefully - such drivel! Really made my blood boil. Logical fallacy and misunderstandings of the scientific method in every single paragraph. Just look at this one. ... and this is coming from the guy who's skeptical about every data point I have seen so far - but this type of stuff is just more crap from the Stanford/PNAS junk mill. Disappointing. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-11-06 at 4.24.29 PM.png] [2020-11-06 19:01:58] [Eddie Holmes] I agree. Total junk. Just bin it. [2020-11-07 18:21:43] [Eddie Holmes] Are we going to (a) write a response to Relman or (b) leave it wait for more data? [2020-11-07 18:29:30] [Kristian Andersen] I say we leave it. I'll tell him he's an idiot the next time I 'see' him [2020-11-07 18:30:40] [Eddie Holmes] Fair enough. Hopefully some new data will appear soon. [2020-11-07 18:46:05] [Kristian Andersen] .. more pangolying would be great :wink: [2020-11-07 18:50:16] [Eddie Holmes] On it. [2020-11-08 16:39:02] [Eddie Holmes] https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/who-convened-global-study-of-the-origins-of-sars-cov-2 [2020-11-08 17:49:21] [Eddie Holmes] Sorry, I think this an old report. [2020-11-09 02:19:07] [Eddie Holmes] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/12/20-3386_article [2020-11-09 03:44:03] [Andrew Rambaut] Looks like it could be a handy outgroup for the SC2, pangolin, RaTG13 clade [2020-11-09 06:46:14] [Robert Garry] Pretty nice analysis in Fig 1E. Imagine - natural gain/loss of function via indels in coronaviruses. Alina is probably looking for typos as we speak. [2020-11-09 09:19:52]