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One question I'd ask - "Since you faked RaTG13, why haven't you faked a closely related ancestral strain from a random intermediate host?" [2020-12-21 16:17:59] [Andrew Rambaut] Has anyone tried translating it out of frame? Perhaps it says "MADEINCHINA"? [2020-12-21 16:20:31] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2020-12-21 16:20:31] "FUNGFLUPATENTPENDING" [2020-12-21 16:20:39] [Andrew Rambaut] ```Sars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.``` Eh? [2020-12-21 16:21:22] [Andrew Rambaut] 5.1 million reads though [2020-12-21 16:49:23] [Eddie Holmes] Vince is loosing the plot: http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ [2020-12-21 16:54:41] [Kristian Andersen] I can't stand to listen to him - he's disqualified from all further discussions (the worst thing is - he NEVER listens to ANYBODY. It's all about him and only about him - and only he knows). He got Ebola wrong, he got Zika wrong, and he's now once again getting another virus wrong. I have no idea what he actually knows about - because even his virology knowledge (let alone genomics/epi/immunology, etc) is shockingly poor. [2020-12-21 17:18:59] [Kristian Andersen] Well, at least Butt Lesion actually knows what he's talking about - at least sometimes. [2020-12-21 17:51:11] [Eddie Holmes] He definitely know a thing or two about arseholes. [2020-12-21 19:42:49] [Robert Garry] Yeah - 8+ years later this exchange involving VR, and Martin Enserink didn't cover either of them in a lot of glory. Ron Fouchier via second hand quotes [who was most vocal that PO1 should not even mention lab origins] doesn't come off all that great either. https://www.virology.ws/2012/07/10/origin-of-the-h5n1-storm/ [2020-12-21 20:30:16] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2020-12-21 16:20:31] @Eddie Holmes "RALPHSDESIGNSLTD" [2020-12-22 01:06:54]