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More guff: https://www.jle.com/en/covid19-the-who-mission-report-struggles-to-trace-the-origins-of-the-SARS-CoV-2-epidemic [2021-04-29 17:29:13] [Kristian Andersen] More like drivel. So many logical fallacies in there... [2021-04-29 17:31:07] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, drivel [2021-04-29 17:31:16] [Kristian Andersen] In better news. I got an award from Bobby Boy :wink::muscle: [shared file(s): Image from iOS.jpg] [2021-04-29 17:34:31] [Eddie Holmes] Oh, fantastic. I [2021-04-29 17:34:46] [Eddie Holmes] I'll need to find the perfect spot for mine. [2021-04-29 22:48:50] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-04-29 22:48:50] "An insertion of four amino acids in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein occurred during its emergence from an animal reservoir and created a suboptimal furin CS" [shared file(s): s41564-021-00908-w.pdf] [2021-04-30 05:07:10] [Robert Garry] Important paper! [2021-04-30 05:14:37] [Robert Garry] This "letter" another steaming pile of garbage: https://jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Open-Letter-to-t he-World-Health-Organization-and-the-Members-of-its-Executive-Board-1.pdf [2021-04-30 05:23:23] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-04-29 22:48:50] 'suboptimal' :+1: [2021-04-30 06:32:52] [Robert Garry] Very important point - IF you were engineering in a FCS why use an out-of-frame insertion, add a freaking proline in front (unless you somehow were aware that that would help create the mystical O-linked glycans] and put in a minimal/suboptimal FCS (RXXR, instead of the optimal RXRR)? PooH and PooR are still trying to "get it right." [2021-04-30 06:35:21] [Robert Garry] https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2021/04/30/origines-du-sars-cov-2-des-scienti[...]gnent-a-l-oms-d-eclaircir-le s-zones-d-ombre_6078611_3244.html [2021-04-30 07:00:37]