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Stunning scoop or train wreck?
A matter of mistranslation?
Incompetence, honest errors or bad faith?
Summary of glaring errors & omissions & lack of insight of science in story by @KatherineEban @jeffykao
@tracyweber @SteveEngelberg @propublica @radhikajones @VanityFair
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A matter of mistranslation?
Incompetence, honest errors or bad faith?
Summary of glaring errors & omissions & lack of insight of science in story by @KatherineEban @jeffykao
@tracyweber @SteveEngelberg @propublica @radhikajones @VanityFair
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1️⃣ Glaring error in the tense regarding “the 3 nos” and glaring omission of “the 3 haves”
The dispatch you cited was about officials gloating about how they had started from “the 3 nos”, overcome obstacles, and achieved “the 3 haves”, which was noted in the GOP report👇
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The dispatch you cited was about officials gloating about how they had started from “the 3 nos”, overcome obstacles, and achieved “the 3 haves”, which was noted in the GOP report👇
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2️⃣ Glaring error
Your story says:on 24 Feb 2020 Zhou became the 1st in the world to apply for a patent for CoV2 vaccine
It’s wrong: half dozen Western companies applied earlier.H/T @flodebarre
By your logic,isn’t that even more scientifically & technologically impossible?
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Your story says:on 24 Feb 2020 Zhou became the 1st in the world to apply for a patent for CoV2 vaccine
It’s wrong: half dozen Western companies applied earlier.H/T @flodebarre
By your logic,isn’t that even more scientifically & technologically impossible?
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Hi @KatherineEban @jeffykao @VanityFair @propublica:
Your article contains at least 1 glaring error & 1 glaring omission
Citing two documents published in June & Sept 2019👇,you say they lamented the BSL-4 lab as having the problem of “the 3 ‘nos’”
You got the tense wrong
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Your article contains at least 1 glaring error & 1 glaring omission
Citing two documents published in June & Sept 2019👇,you say they lamented the BSL-4 lab as having the problem of “the 3 ‘nos’”
You got the tense wrong
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The glaring error:
Both documents cite the same quote, saying that there were “the 3 nos” (“三无”)—no equipment/technology standards, no design/construction teams, & no experience of operating/maintaining—“at the beginning of the construction of BSL-4 lab” (”在建设伊始“).
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Both documents cite the same quote, saying that there were “the 3 nos” (“三无”)—no equipment/technology standards, no design/construction teams, & no experience of operating/maintaining—“at the beginning of the construction of BSL-4 lab” (”在建设伊始“).
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In other words,the documents did not say,as you claim in the story,that “the 3 nos” were a problem at the time of publication
I’m sure even you—and anybody w sound judgment—would agree what you claim in the story & what the documents actually say are categorically different.
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I’m sure even you—and anybody w sound judgment—would agree what you claim in the story & what the documents actually say are categorically different.
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THREAD: Lately, I've been revisiting my notes from the fantastic #SciWri21 conference. It was fun to live-tweet many of the sessions, and I wanted to collect those threads in one place. So, here is my #SciWri21 mega-thread (a.k.a. "thread-ception")! [1/n]
Pandemic Solidarity with Other Science Writers: A one-hour chat*
*This was a confidential space, so I have just the one tweet below to share.
#SciWri21 #SciWriThrive [2/n]
*This was a confidential space, so I have just the one tweet below to share.
#SciWri21 #SciWriThrive [2/n]
