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[2021-04-05 06:58:15] [Kristian Andersen] "Jeopardized my prospects in science". I bloody hope so! [2021-04-05 07:17:55] [Robert Garry] Honestly. I'd advise her to find another career. If your first inclination when you find someone disagrees with you is to contact the journal and claim fraud, science is probably not the gig for you. Second, if you think you can wade into an area with no background, write a BS paper (that is wrong on many counts) and then believe that your "opinion" is *equa*l to ppl who have dedicated decades of study of similar problems, then you are too ~fucked up in the head~ stupid to be in science. [2021-04-05 07:29:54] [Robert Garry] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/health/coronavirus-variants-vaccines.html?referringSource=articleShare [2021-04-05 07:36:27] [Robert Garry] This is a very good article. "While most vaccines are effective against B.1.1.7, researchers are increasingly concerned about other variants that contain a mutation called E484K. (Scientists often refer to it, appropriately, as "Eek.")" Eek going mainstream! I guess some will complain about "inclusion." Gonna need some variants for: yikes, dang [better than DouG] and damn. [2021-04-05 11:00:29] [Kristian Andersen] This is very good. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/91932?trw=no [2021-04-05 11:34:11] [Robert Garry] Agreed - not as deep a burn as "worst CDC Director in hIstory" or even it's like from a comic book, but good to see the well considered pushback. [2021-04-05 11:39:05] [Kristian Andersen] We need both - very well argued from Stephen's side and it's probably better he doesn't go in for the knockout of a former CDC director... I'll keep throwing punches and reserve the right to call Redfield an imbecile and, yes, the most catastrophic CDC director of all times. [2021-04-05 12:42:28] [Kristian Andersen] PREDICT ranked viruses likely to spill over... Take a look at their list - let me know if you spot any, hmmmm, (very well) known sequencing artifacts / contaminants. https://spillover.global/ranking-comparison/ [2021-04-05 13:18:10] [Eddie Holmes] Alina - what hypocrisy. That's what you get from spreading lies. Don't get me started on SpillOver - I reviewed this paper and have a counter article in the wings. It's nonsense. Can you tell me which ones you think are dodgy. [2021-04-05 13:54:42] [Eddie Holmes]