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[Robert Garry] I like weird = just ask @Kristian Andersen I'm a big ferret fan to, if we're considering non-bats. [2020-05-22 16:59:31] [Eddie Holmes] Ferret-badger would be great. [2020-05-22 17:30:25] [Eddie Holmes] According to this, one of those Imperial College reports has an Altmetric of >65,000. I find this very hard to believe, and it's not a paper. Perhaps it solves the mystery though? https://www.scienceopen.com/search#('order'~0 _'context'~('collection'~('id'~'d6ba10ea-809d-4f28-96b9-d2ed475ec319'_'kind'~0)_'kind'~11)_'v'~3_'kind'~77) [2020-05-22 17:43:48] [Robert Garry] Guess I missed the hoopla. I think this is an error as well - if you look at the distribution of twitterers is all in the US. If not, apparently, one of us needs to find a married blond socialist "side-piece." [2020-05-22 17:44:31] [Robert Garry] There is an obvious candidate BTW. [2020-05-22 18:18:41] [Robert Garry] It's time for Ian to step up. [2020-05-22 18:23:17] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, I think it's an error. Butt lesion has been very quiet lately. [2020-05-23 14:24:13] [Eddie Holmes] Just a had a thought: for the GVP to work they would have to sequence gazillions of viruses. Then, to work out which of these might infect humans, they would then have to test them all in a range of human cells. We previously pointed out the crazy enormity of this task. But, it's not just size: what they are effectively proposed are 100,000s of GoF experiments for viruses that could potentially infect humans. Even if we don't think the virus came out of a lab, surely this is now an unacceptable risk? [2020-05-23 14:31:01] [Robert Garry] That's a very good point Eddie - needs to see the light of day. [2020-05-23 14:31:48] [Eddie Holmes] Not quite sure how to say it without encouraging the lab escape crowd for the current outbreak? [2020-05-23 14:32:39] [Kristian Andersen] Exactly - that's why I haven't said anything :wink: [2020-05-23 14:34:19] [Eddie Holmes] Your ahead of me Kristian. I think more about how this can be done. [2020-05-23 14:37:02] [Kristian Andersen]