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Bannon/Yan/Chan, the Republican party, the GMO activists, Relman, etc have kept the lab-based origin theory alive and dare I say popular. [2020-12-13 12:27:12] [Eddie Holmes] It feels very 2nd hand. I never talked to them. Was it Ian Sample you talked to Andrew? I spoke to him (via email) as well. [2020-12-13 13:21:15] [Andrew Rambaut] Yes - it was Ian. Talked to him a few times over the year. [2020-12-13 17:13:13] [Eddie Holmes] I just got a FOI request regarding a whole bunch of papers including PO1. From the US Right to Know people. I'm officially on leave so I'm not going to deal with it until Jan. I don't think there's anything in there apart from the use of the phrase 'butt lesion' which I will ask to be redacted. It will take months to resolve all this but would be good to publish PO2 before anything comes out. I will get onto this. [2020-12-13 20:25:17] [Eddie Holmes] I look into this next year. Such a bloody waste of time. [2020-12-13 20:42:33] [Robert Garry] @Covidfaker gets some ragtag "journalist" to file FOIA on me regarding grant funding about ever 6-12 months - it is simply to piss off funding agencies like NIH, who also have to waste a bloody lot of time. [2020-12-13 20:43:03] [Robert Garry] Very much agree about PO2. [2020-12-14 08:52:24] [Robert Garry] Another important article from Ed Yong [2020-12-14 08:52:57] [Robert Garry] "Academia's perverse incentives pushed overconfident poseurs towards sloppy work, which then got international attention. Many people swerved out of their scholarly lanes and plowed into unfamiliar territory, making life harder for actual experts. 6/" Yes Alina, Relman etc he is talking about you... [2020-12-14 08:56:32] [Kristian Andersen] I had a good half hour rant about this when I talked to him :wink:. Haven't had time to read the article yet - but I'm sure it's great... [2020-12-14 09:01:19] [Robert Garry] And don't be mistaken Alina is indeed talking about us here, but mostly you Kristian :sunglasses: [shared file(s): image.png] [2020-12-14 09:03:41] [Kristian Andersen] She _does_ talk a lot about me... :thinking_face:.