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[Kristian Andersen] Thanks Bob for doing the podcast - looking forward to listening to it later today! Here's the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwrDSYrhjU. Love that Alina ended up on her own little wall of crazy - the thread is about as crazy as her own... [2021-05-30 09:29:57] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-05-30 03:42:12] @Andrew Rambaut I agree on all these points - we need to stay on-point so it doesn't get too long. I think the first draft is great, because it has a TON of stuff in there - however, I also absolutely agree that most of it needs to go, focusing just on the most important aspects and key components of "evidence for emergence". I'll let the two of you make the next few editing rounds and then I can pop back in. The document has the whole version history saved, so no harm in being aggressive with the editing - everything will be preserved if we need to get back to it. I'll go in and name the current version so we can go back to parts of it if necessary. [2021-05-30 09:38:27] [Robert Garry] I'm just asking questions - not 100% convinced that Alina hasn't been secretly recruited by the Peter Thiel/Steve Bannon/Miles Guo axis - like Dr. Yan - to push Lab Leak. The fact she gave a talk essentially on the topic of eugenics that Epstein (one of Theil's buddies) attended bumps up my prior on this a bit higher. Yuri - the head freezer - is all most certainly in the Thiel cabal. [2021-05-30 10:05:58] [Robert Garry] https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/human-artificial-chromosomes/ "A case study that we did is fuse yeast that carries a herpes genome and a yeast that carries the ebola protein, to human cells, to show that the human cell produces the infectious virus in combination with the ebola part and the other part....I have a lot of crazy undergrads working for me," GoF for the herpesvirus - you decide. [2021-05-30 10:16:25] [Robert Garry] @Eddie Holmes rocking: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/30/covid-team-interview-wuhan-market-virol ogist-animals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other [2021-05-30 11:11:09] [Kristian Andersen] Great TWiV episode Bob - really enjoyed that! And thanks for the nice words... :flushed:. One quick comment on the codons - the fact that they're commonly found in humans is actually _the_ argument Wade is making that these were human engineered. Quite a lot of (stupid...) subtlety to the recent conversation about that, so I made some specific comments in my thread to highlight how stupid that argument is: https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1391507230848032772?s=20. Also, Bob, new microphone soon...? :studio_microphone::wink: [2021-05-30 11:30:03] [Robert Garry] Yeah - I fumbled some of that a bit...., but my phone also started making noises - I had it off the hook - it looks like a few sentences got cut. Point taken re the microphone 22nd century version on the way. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-05-30 12:33:13] [Kristian Andersen] It was a great episode - you hit so many excellent points very clearly!