Slack / Private Message Drop — page 516

More from my mate at CNN re lab escape: "I've bugged spooks on this for 8 months and they - who would love to pin it in China - don't seem to buy it (certainly in a way they could share).... so it's going to need some actual weight isn't it." [2021-02-15 05:05:03] [Robert Garry] not helpful [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-02-15 10:45:16] [Robert Garry] https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-are-the-covid-investigators-11613401955 [2021-02-15 10:50:27] [Robert Garry] People like Matt Ridley, Ebright, Filipa (alina's buddy), Lipstich etc have a long history of railing against human caused outbreaks or antiGOF research. Is this a CoI? [2021-02-15 11:31:20] [Eddie Holmes] Exactly. That WSJ article is predictably crap. [2021-02-15 11:59:24] [Robert Garry] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pYh8dkuNi_tAVxw5CdYJRN-KRdkb5EvmrQwNEXDM7mM/edit !channel Incorporated or responded to most all of Eddie's spot-on edits and I've updated the figures. Almost ready to go (?), but needs one or so Eddie references and a look thru by Andrew and Kristian. Also suggested an author order here - however, putting @Kristian Andersen first would get the most pings...:grin: Timing good this week I believe. [2021-02-15 12:08:53] [Robert Garry] https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=723&v=BhLAZKYwFh8&feature=youtu.be :exploding_head: [2021-02-15 12:25:32] [Kristian Andersen] Hey Bob - hoping to take a look at the manuscript later in the week - but sooooo many papers right now that require my attention. Need to get revisions to our B.1.1.7 paper turned around and then I'll take a look at this one next :wink: [2021-02-15 17:21:38] [Eddie Holmes] I made a few more edits Bob - looks grand. [2021-02-15 17:54:45] [Robert Garry] Thanks much - yes excellent - great edits Eddie and Andrew - when Kristian gets a chance to sign off and Andrew says yes I'll post! [2021-02-16 02:09:08] [Andrew Rambaut] Hi all - I would like to go over this a before posting - will aim to do that this morning. I feel we should get the tone and language exactly right - we are aiming at the supposedly sensible people who may be have false equivalency of the different hypotheses. I think are definitely not trying to have an argument with Drastic - just show how dumb they are. [2021-02-16 05:35:20] [Robert Garry]