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[Robert Garry] WHO communicator communicating with Alina - gotta say this is pretty good. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-07 07:04:47] [Kristian Andersen] Haha, nice! Really, what it is is "amateursplained" - people with no relevant experience trying to explain experts how things really should be done. [2021-03-07 08:24:52] [Kristian Andersen] Another dumb title from WaPo (mostly with quotes from Jesse - who definitely _did_ underestimate the virus, but that's hardly "scientists".... (although, of course, many _did_ in addition to Jesse)) https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/07/scientists-underestimated-coronavirus-are-racing-keep-up-withevolution/ [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-07 at 8.22.57 AM.png] [2021-03-07 11:12:00] [Eddie Holmes] Gabby Stern is my new hero [2021-03-07 11:25:50] [Robert Garry] Ditto! [2021-03-08 04:44:06] [Robert Garry] More and more scary: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin-chaos-under-heaven-wuhan-l ab-book-excerpt-474322 [2021-03-08 06:51:00] [Kristian Andersen] That idiot wrote a book? Geez [2021-03-08 07:01:41] [Robert Garry] truly - any idiot can write a book.... [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-08 07:05:53] [Robert Garry] Sure Alex is no Nicholson Baker, who thinks we need to stop trapping bats and - you know - look for coronaviruses. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-08 07:11:40] [Robert Garry] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3124546/who-readies-covid-19-origins-report-demands-grow-mor e [2021-03-08 07:12:48] [Robert Garry] "They also say there is no public record of a highly similar virus to SARS-CoV-2 - which causes Covid-19 - being isolated in any lab. In addition, a genetic analysis published in _Nature Medicine_ last spring found "strong evidence" there was no genetic manipulation of the new coronavirus. Others argue it is possible there were viruses in the lab, or handled during research, that were not publicly known. Genetic engineer Alina Chan, another signatory to the open letter and a researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, said it was important for the WHO team to be clear in the report about their limitations when evaluating hypotheses. "If they don't have the mandate and they didn't have the access, just say so right away," she said."