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[2021-05-25 18:19:58] [Eddie Holmes] https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/25/politics/biden-shut-down-trump-effort-coronavirus-chinese-lab/index.html [2021-05-25 18:43:41] [Kristian Andersen] Reading... Separately, Marc is going to regret getting on Twitter today... [2021-05-25 18:44:33] [Kristian Andersen] He made the mistake of bringing up a few specific points (while criticizing our paper) and he's absolutely getting his ass handed to him for being so darn naive. I hope he learns from the experience. [2021-05-25 18:53:39] [Eddie Holmes] Is he suggesting they got directly infected from tissue in the freezer? [2021-05-25 19:17:51] [Kristian Andersen] Yup, he just brought that up [2021-05-25 19:18:23] [Kristian Andersen] I called it a "very specific version of natural emergence" (and hence hugely unlikely). He didn't like that very much. [2021-05-25 19:18:56] [Kristian Andersen] He's being absolutely swarmed at the moment though, so not really fair to him - but I gotta say, boy oh boy is the stuff he says naive. [2021-05-25 19:20:45] [Kristian Andersen] Look at the last tweet in that thread too. Bringing up bacteria... ANYBODY with a little bit of knowledge would look at that and say "wait, what, he doesn't even understand the basics"? Unreal. I really respect Marc a lot - as in, a lot. But this is uninformed and naive. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-25 at 7.19.25 PM.png] [2021-05-25 19:22:46] [Eddie Holmes] Isolating bacteria in live animals? WTF? [2021-05-25 19:24:21] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah - that's what SARS-CoV-2 did. It jumped out of a tube and into a person. And then it caused a super spreading event at a wet market. And then the pandemic. Simple, really. I was kinda hoping Alex would go in for the kill... Good thing Andrew is asleep. [2021-05-25 19:30:34] [Eddie Holmes] Just supreme arrogance. The other question is where this will all end? Will China seriously allow another, more detailed investigation? I think not.