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[2021-04-03 06:42:15] [Robert Garry] "global project for the protection of people's trust in institutions" This "project" certainly does not pay very well. [2021-04-03 06:55:49] [Robert Garry] Getting into the not so funny territory: [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-04-03 08:34:08] [Robert Garry] Had to go back and check but my CNN interview with Maggie Fox preceded this interview: https://www.hudson.org/research/16790-covid-likely-came-from-wuhan-lab Yes - Asher really did say without a touch of irony at the end: The "Chinese are creating superhuman warriors..." A real world twist on Marvel's Captain America, if I had to guess. Asher is the guy who advised Pompeo on "origins." Asher is also the ultimate source for the two lab leak "experts" Metzl [sci-fi genetics author, so a real expert] and Pottinger [member of Trump's NSC- interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Pottinger] featured uncritically here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-wuhan-origins-60-minutes-2021-03-28/ I suppose it would be amusing if not for all the misinformation that still seems to be driving US policy at the moment. [2021-04-03 09:12:50] [Kristian Andersen] Also [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-04-03 at 9.06.21 AM.png] [2021-04-03 09:17:20] [Kristian Andersen] Just went in and reported these tweets - unbelievable that 60 Minutes gave this guy a platform. Bob, maybe worth sharing this with your 60 Minutes contact since this was _exactly_ what you warned about? [2021-04-03 09:30:39] [Robert Garry] Agree - will do. [2021-04-03 14:28:32] [Eddie Holmes] 'Derision and obfuscation'? I didn't see a word of that in Kristian's thread. [2021-04-03 14:42:54] [Kristian Andersen] Unbelievable - and to even suggest I'm doing this because it would "impact virology", jesus fucking christ. In fact, it'd be great if this was a lab accident - that way our ready-to-go grants on bioterrorism would be a shoo-in with the NIH. These people... [2021-04-03 14:47:25] [Robert Garry] Data analysis and science-based discussion - if you are a conspiracy theorist, then yes - that's the new derision and obfuscation. [2021-04-03 14:49:43] [Robert Garry] Maybe there should be a rule that you actually have had to work in a lab - any lab - to be an expert of "lab leak." Being a bad Sci-FI writer doesn't cut it for me.