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[Robert Garry] You would expect that if _Science_ is going to publish an ostensibly peer-reviewed letter that there would need to be something specific there. Yes - please Alina's RatG13 and Pangovirus are fake and SC2 is perfectly adapted BS. If it's Relman then GoF is gonna be in there. Very disappointed in Jessie Bloom - he admitted he hadn't looked at the science very closely - now he's going in. [2021-05-05 15:20:43] [Eddie Holmes] I hope they say that RaTG13 is the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 and that the pangolin viruses are dodgy. That will clearly show that they've not been listening. [2021-05-05 15:21:28] [Robert Garry] Even thou Gorman is and should be on your shit list - I hope you agreed to look at the letter. I wouldn't play nice with Lab Leakers - they all have something else going on. [2021-05-05 15:30:09] [Kristian Andersen] I told Jim I'd take a look. I'll share when I have it. [2021-05-05 15:35:14] [Robert Garry] Good! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-report-says-covid-originated-in-bats-but-critics-claim-the-study-was -biased Relman is in this interview - and imo - this is probably the GW's best interview. Relman is just going to throw up the same arguments he made here and in the PNAS article. [2021-05-05 15:35:27] [Andrew Rambaut] It would be good to get some comments from people who aren't us - though. [2021-05-05 15:38:28] [Robert Garry] THat's a real good idea. Maybe some of these folks: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32700664/ [2021-05-05 15:46:08] [Eddie Holmes] This comment from Daszak is the key one: [2021-05-05 15:46:13] [Eddie Holmes] • *Dr. Peter Daszak:* • Yes, I have been speaking to them for 15 years. If they had found a virus that was high, of high interest that they were working on, they would have told me before the outbreak, because that's what we were doing before the outbreak. • We shared information on a weekly basis. Yes, some of them answer up the party chain, but they also are scientists. If there is something that the intelligence agencies know that they could supply to the WHO team, they would supply it and we will look at that. [2021-05-05 15:48:25] [Eddie Holmes] Daszak is a total charlatan BUT I'd certain he would have known about what was being done at WIV and it talking to him I'm 100% certain he has no knowledge of anything of note at the WIV. Either that or he's the best liar ever with balls is titanium. [2021-05-05 15:48:51] [Kristian Andersen]