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[Eddie Holmes] Deranged [2021-03-23 15:19:43] [Kristian Andersen] The idiots are running loose. And not just Jamie. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-23 at 15.19.08.png] [2021-03-23 15:20:37] [Kristian Andersen] Can somebody please tell me how this is _any_ different from natural emergence? Because it's associated with research activity? A very specific low probability event compared to the alternative scenario... It's so dumb. [2021-03-23 15:22:01] [Kristian Andersen] Of course Alex is there to give Marc Lipsitch a statistics lecture... Love this guy. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-23 at 15.21.05.png] [2021-03-23 15:23:38] [Eddie Holmes] He's so good [2021-03-23 15:27:06] [Kristian Andersen] He really is - and I mean, a PhD student teaching one of the most prominent statisticians (at Harvard...) the basics of statistics is pretty, well, ballsy. [2021-03-23 15:30:35] [Robert Garry] It's not snarky though - to his credit. It's delivered in a scientific way. Not like the total BS spewed out by a certain Broad Post-Doc [alignment/assembly tweet comes to mind]. [2021-03-23 15:31:13] [Robert Garry] ballsy>>>snarky [2021-03-23 15:33:23] [Kristian Andersen] I like to do both, although, I probably do snarky more often these days. I think my response to Alina's "alignment <> assembly" was firmly in the latter category [2021-03-23 15:47:15] [Robert Garry] The guy that Pompeo is relying on for his information about WIV is the same guy (Asher) that thinks that pangolins mated with bats. Jamie is using "information" gathered by Asher and politicized by Pompeo to build all of his little straw men. [2021-03-23 17:56:32] [Eddie Holmes] I have news...from Peter Daszak: [2021-03-23 17:57:17] [Eddie Holmes] https://twitter.com/klustout/status/1219078782549725184?s=20 "Don't know if I ever sent you this, but it's a link to a CNN video of the Huanan market (allegedly) taken in Dec 2019 (allegedly). Report in last stages now. Your statement is in right now, the extra photos are not, but reference to your