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[2021-04-26 02:22:28] [Eddie Holmes] Let's hope they can get their sequencing together. Indian scientists are submitting a ton of papers to bioRxiv. [2021-04-26 06:50:13] [Kristian Andersen] I believe they're sequencing a lot - just not being shared. [2021-04-26 08:54:49] [Robert Garry] Perfectly sums up DISTRACT, Alina and the other Parisites. [shared file(s): COVID Has Created a Perfect Storm for Fringe Science - Scientific American.pdf] [2021-04-26 09:23:21] [Kristian Andersen] How very true -and of course, true of the broader issues too. The "distinguish scientists from science" is often important - although I typically also like to add "scientists vs experts" - not necessarily the same thing. [2021-04-26 21:33:39] [Kristian Andersen] As for the pangolin CoV genome... I wasted a good four hours today. :clap::clown_face: [shared file(s): readme.txt] [2021-04-26 22:33:37] [Eddie Holmes] Thanks for doing that! So sad that you even have to bother. [2021-04-27 05:00:36] [Robert Garry] It's important Kristian. Alina's assertion that the world's sequence databases are corrupted via an international conspiracy to obscure the origins of SARS-CoV-2 takes a wooden stake to the heart. [2021-04-27 05:00:48] [Robert Garry] Meanwhile I took part in a little stab at another set of conspiracy theorists. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pfizer-neurological-damage/ "In February 2021, anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a Facebook post purporting to describe "new research" published by "veteran immunologist" J. Bart Classen in a journal named Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. The study in question asserted to have found evidence that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines could cause neurological degenerative diseases. In April 2021, the right-wing National File promoted this same study, describing the research as "credible" -- apparently basing this conclusion on nothing more than the fact that it appears in what looks to be a legitimate scientific journal." [2021-04-27 05:34:04] [Robert Garry] Alina also needs to be called out for her bullshit and distraction. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-04-27 12:52:01] [Robert Garry] Follow the animals... [shared file(s): U.S. Aims to Shape New Phase of WHO-Led Probe Into Origin of Covid-19 - WSJ.pdf] [2021-04-27 13:10:29]