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[2021-04-15 14:40:44] [Eddie Holmes] @Kristian Andersen Just read you email. It's great! Thanks. I've just let Jackson have it with both barrels incl. the USyd legal team. Here's the actual statement from me about the miners (what was in an email to him that I did not know was going to be quoted and he never told me this): "The researchers at the WIV state that they have not closer virus to SARS-CoV-2 than RaTG13, and RaTG13 is clearly not the source of SARS-CoV-2 (it's far too distant). To me, these statements ring true because they would have very likely already published the sequence of any such virus if it had existed, particularly a virus that they would then do more work on. As such, the miners story tells us nothing about the emergence of SARS-CoV-2." [2021-04-15 14:42:34] [Kristian Andersen] And you are absolutely right - "the miners story tells us nothing about the emergence of SARS-CoV-2". I definitely hope legal takes this on - libel, no question. [2021-04-15 14:44:29] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-04-15 06:56:52] @Robert Garry Archiving a PDF version here. [shared file(s): How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group - CNET.pdf] [2021-04-15 14:46:34] [Eddie Holmes] I'm keen to see his response. [2021-04-15 14:52:50] [Robert Garry] Zhengli also stated in a public talk a month or so ago - the one in which Metzl harangued her about the CCP army - that the eight or nine distantly related coronaviruses they found in the mine and just haven't yet worked up are are part of an upcoming publication. More disappointment for Metzl et al who believe are these mine viruses are smoking guns. [2021-04-15 14:54:38] [Kristian Andersen] I'm pretty sure it's these - distantly related. [shared file(s): Ew35lxKU8AAbXdw.png] [2021-04-15 14:55:41] [Eddie Holmes] All very good points [2021-04-15 14:59:38] [Robert Garry] You could add to the litany of lies that Jackson, Metzl, DRASTIC etc are accusing Zhengli of is the negative serology of her own staff after they had Ab assay up and running. [2021-04-15 16:01:16] [Robert Garry] But this is probably nothing compared to the lies that Alina, Metzl eDim, Relman etc are feeding the journos about us "virologists." Here's Billy's latest on Eddie (with a little help from Alina). [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-04-15 16:03:08] [Robert Garry] Whatever is showing up in the articles like Jackson's is no doubt tame/watered down compared to the stories that the Internet Sleuths are feeding anyone that will listen. [2021-04-15 16:25:20]