Slack / Private Message Drop — page 488

[2021-02-05 16:44:26] [Eddie Holmes] I will pass this on the lawyers [2021-02-05 16:50:11] [Eddie Holmes] But, I agree that lawyers are not the best course of action. Makes me feel better though. [2021-02-05 17:07:20] [Robert Garry] Well - they could do some things - cease and desist letter for example [2021-02-05 17:10:43] [Robert Garry] Engaging her "science" is ludicrous - she is so far out of her depth it is pathetic. However, there are not that many that can grasp the difference. [2021-02-05 17:12:16] [Eddie Holmes] True. I do not want to get into a long tweet debate about all this. I had planned to ignore it but that tweet crossed the line. I've now a one tweet response and that is it. [2021-02-05 17:28:08] [Robert Garry] Well I guess the Wash Post watches Fox News.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/05/coronavirus-origins-mystery-china/?arc404=true [2021-02-05 17:30:45] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, I saw. They even mention DRASTIC. Will be interesting to see what WHO report. [2021-02-05 17:39:03] [Robert Garry] Here I fixed the WasPost editorial : According to research by DRASTIC, a network of convicted pedophiles, erotic novel writers, cryonic hucksters, slanderous post-docs turned science police, purveyors of city sized soft-core pornography and led by a penis-fixated graffiti artist, this is the most important bat coronavirus database in China. [2021-02-05 17:45:09] [Eddie Holmes] :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: [2021-02-05 18:00:13] [Eddie Holmes] I also have on hand the relevant emails with Clare Thomas at Nature and Jeremy Farrar via Twitter message. These :100: support what I've said and show that I was trying to get the sequence released ASAP but that Zhang was under strong pressure. These are not subject to GIPA but it is good to have them. [2021-02-05 18:42:28] [Eddie Holmes] I have all the ammo, it's just a case of when I use it. I was hoping to stay above all this shit. [2021-02-06 04:10:44] [Robert Garry] "A further surprise was in store. Chan and her colleague Dr Shing Hei Zhan scrutinised the evolutions of SARS-CoV-1 (the cause of the 2003 SARS epidemic) and SARS-CoV-2 (the cause of the current pandemic) in the early months of their respective outbreaks and found that while the former mutated rapidly in early human cases, as