In March, invited by Jay Bhattacharya, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19.
There was a lot to debunk; here is Part II:
pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1108
🧪 #covidorigin
In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19.
The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I:
pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995
🧪 #covidorigin
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Gilead has a drug that could prevent HIV with just 2 injections a year. MSF said "we'll buy it name your price." Gilead said no.
Let that sink in. Pharmacological innovation without access for those who need it does not accomplish its potential.
www.eatg.org/hiv-news/pre...
A full moon in the sky reflected on still water on which a boat with three people is passing. Reeds grow on the shore in the foreground.
'Moonlit Sea' - Koho, ca. 1930's.
#FullMoon #JapaneseArt
Short form content has its drawbacks but @popdetective.bsky.social has been absolutely on fire with YouTube shorts this week. Check them out!
youtube.com/shorts/3tbZh...
Read @flodebarre.bsky.social's original analysis: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/898.
While the original WeChat post is bonkers, it points to unreleased data from the market, including:
1️⃣ Potentially infected animals in "Stall A" - the hot-spot inside the market.
2️⃣ +Serology of vendor from Stall A.
As a new study calls into question one of the central planks of the "lab leak" hypothesis, I review the long history of pandemics and describe how researchers have long puzzled over their origins.
markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/opportunit...
NYT: Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made
Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents
by Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com @nytimes.com
nyti.ms/4uoaA6w gift link
The night sky is ours. All of ours. Our children’s. Their children’s. We should be doing more to preserve the view of the stars for all. We give this up for some ludicrous to churn out wasteful nonsense to feed rich maniacs’ grift, it’s not coming back…
I have devoted much of my weather & climate career to engaging with journalists--including 200-300 news media interviews per year, many of which involve recurring conversations to facilitate timely & contextually accurate coverage. This recent collapse has been stunning and deeply disconcerting.
Sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality.
"Women make up just 12 per cent of AI researchers and female founders receive only 2 per cent of venture capital funding. We are not the ones building this new world. But we will have no choice about living in it."
www.ft.com/content/60e2...
Disgusting and pathetic. I interviewed Wolfe in 2012 on mpox, met him at Zurich airport
Conspiracy theorists often see themselves as critical thinkers, yet they may fall for obvious disinformation when it aligns with their beliefs.
It happened last Spring with a claim that the origin of the 2024 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda was a lab leak. ▫️1/6 🧵
Just added this to my WordPress site, so it's free to read.
homunculusmusic.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/e...
"Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
Unser Dokufilm #Blame kommt jetzt ins Kino, so vielleicht ist es ein guter Zeitpunkt mal ein paar Termine hier zu posten.
Der Film wird von "Rise and Shine Cinema" vertrieben und es gibt alle Info auf deren Webseite: riseandshine-cinema.de/portfolio/bl...
Okay, so hier ein paar infos:
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Hot News from @naturehealthglobal.bsky.social Re. the documentary Blame: Nominated for major award, released in theaters in Germany/Switzerland, & US PREMIERE at the Sedona Film Festival in April 2026!!! 🧵
naturehealthglobal.org/update-blame...
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
“The U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke … There is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot,” Stacey Abrams tells Anne Applebaum.
theatln.tc/qkeYrlaM
Die Fragen, die man sich vor der #Halbierungsintiative stellen müsste: Was können private Medien (nicht) leisten, die auf Reichweite und Klicks zielen müssen?
Und was sind uns die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen als Infrastruktur für Demokratie und Föderalismus wert? www.derbund.ch/srg-halbieru...
Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.
This work sits at the core of machine learning’s breakthroughs, which rest on the fact that AI is only as good as the data it is trained on. In India, this labour is increasingly performed by women, who are part of a workforce often described as “ghost workers”.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
@sammyroth.bsky.social reporting that the Post cuts include 14 climate journalists:
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
