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[2021-03-17 18:02:07] [Eddie Holmes] Correction. Failed vaccine. [2021-03-17 18:04:13] [Kristian Andersen] He even managed to get a nice photo of himself holding the vaccine - I call that product placement. Then again, the poor guy isn't receiving those fat CCP checks we are, so can't really blame him. [2021-03-17 18:05:41] [Kristian Andersen] Some brotherly love on this retweet, I guess? [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-17 at 6.02.59 PM.png] [2021-03-17 18:07:43] [Eddie Holmes] Good for Eisen. Petrovsky is a complete charlatan. [2021-03-17 20:11:57] [Kristian Andersen] https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1372383452197097473?s=20 [2021-03-17 20:31:19] [Eddie Holmes] Wow [2021-03-17 20:33:25] [Kristian Andersen] I mean - does he even _check_ the kind of shit he links to? [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-17 at 8.32.55 PM.png] [2021-03-17 20:36:01] [Kristian Andersen] Those RdRp fragments - which were all released months before the pandemic - aren't even remotely closely related to SC2. Any quick glance at one of the trees on Twitter or, you know, a simple blast search would tell you as much. Really, really disappointing he's gone down this route - not to mention the false equivalence here. Just complete bs. I'm all for keeping an open mind and for investigating _actual_ evidence, but it's this kind of sloppiness from respected scientists that makes me furious. [2021-03-17 20:36:16] [Kristian Andersen] "Central to being a good scientist is keeping an open mind when evidence is sparse, and as a "virus expert" who has followed this topic closely: it's clear in any objective assessment that both natural origins and accidental lab leak are plausible." Well, look at the fucking data first. Properly. [2021-03-17 20:36:19] [Eddie Holmes] I've just replied to one. [2021-03-17 20:37:00] [Kristian Andersen] Haha, just saw - sneaky :wink: