I suspect that @maggiekb1 was referring to China as the place where a lot of disease crossovers happen. Wuhan meanwhile is the biggest transportation hub in China. 2+2 = ...
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Replying to @MoNscience @maggiekb1
I asked her before and got no response. I'd love to see a source for a specific claim: "researchers put a zoonotic disease laboratory in a place where a lot of zoonotic disease crossovers were happening." As far as I can tell, this lab's location has no such history?
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Replying to @zeynep @maggiekb1
Why didn't you just DM her? Because it looks like the replies to your first tweet are serving as a magnet for...::clears throat::...a certain side of this debate.
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Replying to @MoNscience @maggiekb1
She doesn't follow me and I don't follow her and didn't occur to me, to be honest because I don't DM people like that. Yeah nothing about this can be discussed on Twitter lately, will probably delete the thread (more to avoid a pile-on for her?). Probably should have emailed.
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Replying to @zeynep @MoNscience
Not a problem! The only reason I remember open DM's are a thing for other people is because I have it open.
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Replying to @maggiekb1 @MoNscience
FWIW, my current thinking is if I say something that's imprecise, incorrect or is getting taken out of context, I just delete it and sometimes note it but generally don't worry about it. IMO you don't have to preserve it for the record etc. if it is causing you grief.
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(Also why I kinda stopped writing threads here... Everything gets "nationalized" so to speak, lol. Cheers!)
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