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shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-14 at 6.08.43 PM.png [2021-05-14 18:22:15] [Kristian Andersen] And this very key point - which was Zhengli's point too... I wish more people would understand this. https://twitter.com/acritschristoph/status/1392556682157326336?s=20 [2021-05-14 18:28:36] [Eddie Holmes] He's a super-star. I noticed all that stuff about Rs8561 etc. the other day. No where near SARS-CoV-2. All this searching online and they have found nothing closer than RaTG13. I wonder why. [2021-05-14 19:18:52] [Kristian Andersen] One would think SARS-CoV-2 would have been in that 2019 thesis had they had SARS-CoV-2 in the lab.... It's just extremely dumb - and Alex is very very good at laying that bare. Jesse went on about these "missing viruses" too - I pointed out to him that they are nowhere near SARS-CoV-2 and totally irrelevant as it pertains to the origin. I think he might have ignored me. [2021-05-15 05:24:58] [Robert Garry] That's a HUGE point about the thesis - Turn that against the Lab Leakers! [2021-05-15 05:29:08] [Robert Garry] JB didn't ignore you. the twitter exchanges pissed him off to the point he came out with the Bloomshit letter. He's an excellent scientist when it comes to benchwork. Real-world stuff related to outbreaks not so much. [2021-05-15 05:33:05] [Robert Garry] Going back to JB's intentional release statement - does he really believe that someone at WIV or another lab in Wuhan released a bioweapon on their own people? That would be profoundly nuts. [2021-05-15 05:40:26] [Robert Garry] Speaking of profoundly nuts - I actually do think that that is where eDim is going with his call to investigate all the USG agencies, EcoHealth etc. JB may well be referring to the possibility that US or Russia intentionally released SC2. It's also of course precisely where Rand Paul/Fox News and some of the other certifiably crazy politicos are coming from. Makes Steve Bannon look sane by comparison. Fauci/Collins probably not too happy with the JB for the NYT quote. [2021-05-15 05:45:12] [Robert Garry] Then there's ~DT~ Baric. Yes - he's no doubt been getting heat - maybe a lot - re GoF. Still makes him a major league arse, but it's why he signed the Bloomshit letter. Need a journo with some fortitude to lay this all bare. [2021-05-15 06:42:42] [Robert Garry] https://reason.com/2021/05/13/is-this-a-covid-19-smoking-gun-or-is-it-a-damp-squib/ Furin cleavage site. Baltimore: it's a gun, a smoking one. Andersen: it's a squid, a damp one. [2021-05-15 07:07:43] [Kristian Andersen] A whole article about something you wrote on Twitter. Imagine that.