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[Robert Garry] Yes I know it's CCP propaganda, but A for effort! [2021-03-22 16:05:28] [Robert Garry] Well he promptly deleted the tweet from Quillette, but it remains to be seen if there have been any other insights. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-22 16:09:16] [Robert Garry] Just for the record - Alina hasn't deleted here pinned disinformation tweet yet - although the undark article said she regretted/deleted the "genocide" tweet. [2021-03-22 18:24:59] [Kristian Andersen] Pretty illuminating on how some of this bs came about. https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1374167352904884226?s=20. I'm *shocked* somebody like Jesse would tweet this - I mean_, just_ this weekend Eddie, Andrew, and myself reminded him to please check the actual sources and data. And now this. And it's not just Jesse... [2021-03-22 18:51:56] [Robert Garry] Asher is a buffoon - he's literally talking about pangolins and bats *mating*. [2021-03-22 19:00:23] [Eddie Holmes] Just extraordinary [2021-03-22 19:04:38] [Kristian Andersen] I gotta say - if the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 really _did_ require a bat and a pangolin mating, then I would be firmly in the lab leak camp too... So much idiocy. [2021-03-22 19:05:14] [Eddie Holmes] But their skins are so thick! [2021-03-22 21:20:21] [Kristian Andersen] Wait until the tinfoil hats get a hold of this information. I learned today that Scripps Research has a 1/3% royalty stream to the COVID-19 vaccines because we hold the patent on the "2P" mutation used to stabilize the spike protein - used in all the leading vaccines... $40m so far this year. Tinfoil hats explode. :exploding_head:.. [2021-03-22 21:34:01] [Eddie Holmes] If that includes Sinovac you are going down [2021-03-22 21:36:34] [Kristian Andersen] That one is an inactivated vaccine so if that has 2P, then definitely lab leak!