Slack / Private Message Drop — page 569

[2021-03-05 10:41:53] [Robert Garry] A house burns down - some people die. Another house burns down and some more people die. The town builds a fire department. Another house catches on fire. The fire department stops the fire, but not before several houses burn. The firemen saved several other houses and perhaps several lives. The firemen are blamed for starting the fire. [2021-03-05 11:03:41] [Robert Garry] Hmmmm - good advice I guess: [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-05 11:32:14] [Kristian Andersen] I guess these folks didn't take Statistics 101 - especially the chapter on that Tom dude. Or maybe they just flunked out of primary school. [2021-03-05 13:12:51] [Eddie Holmes] Paris Group = Great Barrington Agreement II. [2021-03-05 13:32:57] [Eddie Holmes] Here's an interesting factoid. All Weifeng's new bat viruses, as well as RmYN01 and RmYN02, were collected from this location. Just shows the amazing amount of diversity of these viruses in nature and the sheer difficulty of finding bat zero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xishuangbanna_Tropical_Botanical_Garden [2021-03-05 13:44:43] [Eddie Holmes] And these were not collected from caves, but from a botanical garden where lots of tourists go [2021-03-05 14:00:18] [Robert Garry] Thanks Eddie - I really need to get out more often - looks like a beautiful place.... [2021-03-05 14:04:48] [Eddie Holmes] And the point being that bats and their viruses are everywhere - we can't stop exposure [2021-03-05 14:10:48] [Robert Garry] As for the Paris group I think Kristian said it - let them put their "science" out in the sunlight. There it will die like other conspiracy theories. Oh and there was a Nature podcast - a bit of Bullocks. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00599-7 Amy should have mentioned all the PO1 authors beside Kristian and me, but other than that a good job. Heartwarmingly, it did cause Alina to throw her rattle out of the pram again. Alina is really quite dishonest - twisting up a bunch of stuff that was said to fit her own priors. For ex: Amy never said the Thai bat spike was the most similar to SC2 spike just that is is similar, which of course is true and a point of Holmes2021. [2021-03-05 14:19:08] [Kristian Andersen] Bob, coincidence you and I are implicated in both? I think not... :man_in_business_suit_levitating: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-05 at 2.18.18 PM.png] [2021-03-05 14:22:59] [Robert Garry] Yeah - probably not a coincidence - pretty damn scary actually....