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[thread - ID: 2021-05-26 16:47:51] Let me get people's Gmail accounts and lock the document [2021-05-26 16:48:06] [Kristian Andersen] This article is :fire: https://massivesci.com/articles/sars-cov-coronavirus-covid19-lab-leak-hypothesis/ [2021-05-26 16:48:35] [Kristian Andersen] Gets better towards the end - especially these two paragraphs. :fire::fire::fire: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-26 at 4.45.45 PM.png] [2021-05-26 16:49:22] [Kristian Andersen] "it's naive at best and violent gaslighting at worst to pretend that supporting an evidence-free hypothesis that clearly adds fuel to the idea that China inflicted COVID-19 upon the world" I'm glad I called Relman naive to his face because, yes, that's exactly what it is. [2021-05-26 16:50:01] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-05-26 16:47:51] @Kristian Andersen [2021-05-26 16:59:54] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-05-26 16:47:51] @Kristian Andersen [2021-05-26 17:31:11] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-26 16:47:51] @Kristian Andersen [2021-05-26 17:36:50] [Robert Garry] Yes - please pick a side: "There's a choice being made here between two ideas -- one that falls neatly within the world of biology, and the other that knots together conspiracy theory, political intrigue, and xenophobia." [2021-05-26 17:38:25] [Kristian Andersen] Yup. What's key here - if there was _evidence_ to support the lab leak, taking that latter path would (unfortunately) have been necessary. However, there isn't any evidence, so it ends up exactly like he writes it. Sad! [2021-05-26 19:23:28] [Eddie Holmes] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01383-3 [2021-05-26 19:29:28] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-05-26 19:29:28] Who's the neuroscientist?