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[Eddie Holmes] He's totally lost it. His paper is clearly racist. [2021-06-20 16:43:07] [Kristian Andersen] Yup. [2021-06-20 16:43:59] [Kristian Andersen] Which was pointed out to him. Repeatedly. Yet - :man-shrugging:. In his words "I'll take the heat" (I pointed to out this wasn't about him, but :man-shrugging:) [2021-06-20 16:48:19] [Eddie Holmes] Such a stupid thing to do. He could have raised these points without all the accusations. [2021-06-20 16:49:41] [Kristian Andersen] Yup. And concluded - "It'd be really helpful if the samples were still available and full genomes could be produced". But no - he finishes on how this is a failure of science because the Chinese scientists are lying bastards. [2021-06-20 16:50:18] [Robert Garry] I think some of this is about "taking the heat" or at least forcing his way into the spotlight. He'll be a hero to DRASTIC and Alina - will this be a step too far for any of the rest of the Bloomshiters. Btwn JB and AC they are pretty much making a mockery of science. We'll know for sure when he starts making the rounds on Fox and Murdoch. [2021-06-20 16:50:22] [Kristian Andersen] Tone deaf. :notes: [2021-06-20 16:50:22] [Eddie Holmes] I can't believe he is really that naive [2021-06-20 16:51:16] [Kristian Andersen] After this meeting, I honestly think something might be wrong with him. But I'm not going to speculate. [2021-06-20 16:51:41] [Kristian Andersen] And it's not as much naive as it's willful ignorance. [2021-06-20 16:52:15] [Eddie Holmes] I'm just disgusted that he has printed a FOIAd email in which the authors have no say [2021-06-20 16:52:47] [Kristian Andersen] Agreed. He brought up the pangolin genomes. And RaTG13. It's full on conspiracy. \ [2021-06-20 16:54:23] [Kristian Andersen] "I'm just asking questions". He ended on talking about other data that had been deleted - from GISAID. My Google search above - I wonder where he got that idea from.... (stuff is being deleted on GISAID all the time - we do it,