Slack / Private Message Drop — page 920

[2021-06-04 15:21:34] [Robert Garry] You got the majors - here are a few others parked here for context. Angie may have some more it seems. [shared file(s): image.png, image.png, image.png, image.png, image.png] [2021-06-04 15:21:35] [Eddie Holmes] She also asked Nick Loman on Twitter if I was an original author on the Nature paper. She's bloody evil. [2021-06-04 15:24:41] [Eddie Holmes] Thanks Bob! She's spectacularly stupid. Look at the Boston Magazine: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-06-05 at 7.46.09 am.png] [2021-06-04 15:27:15] [Eddie Holmes] She claims that the pangolin virus may have been contracted from their smugglers. So, in 2019 before the pandemic started smugglers in southern China in were infected by a virus that is related to, but not the same as, SARS-CoV-2, and then infected pangolins. [2021-06-04 15:30:58] [Eddie Holmes] Totally WRONG to say that the Lam et al. paper just uses the first paper's (Liu et al....published before the pandemic) data. [2021-06-04 15:52:06] [Robert Garry] I've seen this behavior before - no compunction against lying - loves the spotlight - massive [undeserved] ego. She'll fly too close to the sun and the wings will melt - the crash will be hard - the problem is she can do and is doing a lot - a lot - of damage along the way. [2021-06-04 15:53:44] [Robert Garry] Long game - the tide will turn - may sound trite even a bit arrogant - BUT we have science on our side. Of that I'm confident. [2021-06-04 16:02:56] [Eddie Holmes] Me too Bob. Just makes my blood boil. Anyway, I'm going to ignore that journo. [2021-06-04 16:07:38] [Robert Garry] Another common trait of this phenotype - they can get journos to write love letters. [shared file(s): A virus hunter faces the big one_ Ebola - The Washington Post.pdf] [2021-06-04 16:12:45] [Kristian Andersen] This made me fall over... :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-06-04 at 4.12.20 PM.png] [2021-06-04 16:21:28] [Robert Garry] It's in these rare moments that twitter is actually of some value. [2021-06-04 16:21:31] [Eddie Holmes]