The 2016 publication doesn’t exist as described.
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I just realized they’re also talking about bats and pangolins mating. These aren’t serious people.
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He's got a point though: there is no evidence of a bat being able to penetrate pangolin scales. How did I miss this!?!
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Replying to @edwardcholmes @GidMK and
Some people have truly lost their minds
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Replying to @K_G_Andersen @stgoldst and
Good lord. I read the whole document and there’s 20 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Though Asher later said that it wasn’t necessarily bat-pangolin mating...it could have been GAIN OF FUNCTION research which is done by co-housing pangolins and bats at WIV.
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Replying to @angie_rasmussen @K_G_Andersen and
That’s much more likely. Pangolins are a well known study animal in virology and the obvious choice for coronavirus work as a pangolin coronavirus had never been discovered. It would have also been obvious to house them with bats.
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Replying to @edwardcholmes @K_G_Andersen and
I personally prefer using BALB/c pangolins over C57BL/6 pangolins for pathogenesis models, but always ran into problems with DURC when I tried to move them into my custom Rhinolophid bat laboratory because that’s how bioweapons are made.
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Replying to @angie_rasmussen @edwardcholmes and
Have you tried smashing the bat and the pangolin in a particle accelerator? It's how they do in physics, so reasoning from first principles it should result in a pangobat.
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Replying to @tpoi @edwardcholmes and
Tim, I’m pretty sure this is your department as a practitioner of “so called bioinformatics science.” Please call your fellow bioinformaticians at CERN and tell them to fire up the particle accelerator!pic.twitter.com/Ze2LUzhLnd
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You know it's gotta be true, it was published "in Wiley", the world-renowned source of scientific fact
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