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@APkfreking Dr Fauci has said, "it [Sharing Proximal Origin] was a response to a question someone asked." The origin of that question has become important. Did anyone suggest that you pose that question before you asked your second one? Thank you.
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I saw this from Jacobs, PhD and Markolin, PhD. "If the conspiracists turn out to be right in the future, they would still have been wrong today." For me, odd cope even in a gambling context with simple odds, but especially strange for issues of intuition and complex judgement.
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Interesting. If, while gambling, someone says "I'm gonna win this" and bets against the odds but wins, do you say, "wow! You called it" and update your priors infinitesimally (->clairvoyant/cheater/your misunderstanding), or do you teach them how they were wrong?
The most frustrating thing to explain to someone is when they make a claim based on insufficient evidence, you point that out, and then later evidence happens to show they were correct. They then confuse having turned out to be right with having been justified in their original
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"Crafting your scientist brand" - 2018 If you suspect our National Treasure is less than the real deal, this article will affirm that intuition.
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Same one where he says that at the top tier of Personal Branding, a scientist can be "elevated to a symbol... something far larger than the discipline from which he originated"?
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It is the same one in which he describes Bill Nye as a scientist "of great stature and importance".
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Who can name the article in which Hotez said: "It helps to have a sense of humor and humility"?
Is there a Hall of Fame for self-promotion?
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Hmm. Maybe, but TDS deserves some credit for the Gaza deal. /The tyrant's military lays siege to American cities, missiles strike targets at whim, his cruelty unbounded by law and untempered by compassion./ What tribe would not bow when His Eye and His Will turns toward them?
I remember taking classes from high-flying diplomats and professors at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and feeling so impressed with all of their sophistication and academic knowledge. But in retrospect, these were the same people, or at least the same kind of people, who
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The impulse to target gov't agents for extragovernmental punishment in order to shape practice is undemocratic and illiberal. US gov't is designed so that all have an equal voice. This style of politics attempts to create a 4th branch of gov't, run by 'decent society'.
To be clear: lol, In fact, I will be very loud, but in the other direction: ICE agents should be shunned by decent society for long after this moment has passed. Abuse of power is not simply an idea people have. It's a thing people do, or are complicit in.
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I disagree. I think it is financial independence. Monks, patent clerks, aristocrats, and billionaires are scientists. The rest are grifters.
I disagree. I think it's guts.
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If Presidential Medals of Freedom had actual correlation to heroism and freedom, @R_H_Ebright should have already been awarded one. He correctly and bravely spoke out about risky research more than a decade ago, well before the COVID pandemic. Had people in power listened,
"In 2017-2018…Wuhan Institute of Virology…constructed genetically modified SARS coronaviruses…, obtaining at least one new virus that exhibited 10,000x enhanced viral growth in lungs, 1,000,000x enhanced viral growth in brains, and 3x enhanced lethality, in humanized mice."
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The very *authors* of Proximal Origin were debating its most firm conclusions months after publishing. Unsurprising it doesn't hold up well.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” uses kindergarten-level reasoning and is extremely unpersuasive. Once you read the Slack messages and emails of those involved in its creation, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out it’s fraudulent.
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Goes hard. But can someone disagree? I can't.
@quay_dr A crackpot intel scheme premised on the crackpot notion that a nation holding $1 T in US debt would share bioweapons-agents research results in exchange for $0.000001 T in US research funding and baijiu and karaoke with the community-college grad and ex-con serving as bagman.
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@javid_lab @mbeisen Preprinting needs to be mandated by the NIH And would have been a decade ago if the NIH had had a competent, non-complicit, and non-corrupt Director.
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The most intolerant and toxic accounts migrated to Bluesky. There is no surprise ending to this story... It seems inevitable that all the jerks (think zoonati) will be back on X as soon as Musk makes some minor pro-social change that they can use as an excuse for returning.
Politico journalist Michael Kruse shared a quote from an article on Blue Cry. Kruse was deluged with angry, hateful replies & Blue Cry closed down his account. The quote: “Leaving X because you don’t like Elon is the kind of purity politics that landed Democrats in this mess” 🧵
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@CBCNews And only an ignoramus or a fraud would claim "It's very difficult to explain any other way, besides that virus was brought there with those live animals and it spilled over, twice actually, into the human population at the market."
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Four dozen ethically challenged scientists and two dozen ethically challenged science administrators against 333 million other US residents. One would expect politicians would understand this is a issue with a 99.99998% to 0.00002% split. But many politicians still do not.
"Who should decide whether scientists are allowed to modify viruses to make them more…deadly…? The surprising answer…is…scientists and…the NIH, which ha[s] a vested interest in funding…such 'gain of function' research, have been the ones deciding." https://t.co/8xdgE4AgP3
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@DigitalDionysu1 It takes a mix, obviously. But yeah if you think the records we have of project DEFUSE, Andersens convos with Farrar, the biosafety records of similar labs, etc are irrelevant, I dunno how to help you.
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In investigating other potential zoonotic events, even finding infected animals has been interpreted to mean they were simply a "likely source". (e.g. HK hamsters) An HSM spillover event (and especially Pekar22's several) lacks key evidentiary support. Built on hopes and dreams.
None of this is new. What the new paper does not say, because it cannot, is that there was an infected mammal in the market; or a market vendor infected by a mammal. These are the bare minimum clues that in every other zoonotic outbreak scientists have demanded to see.
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@Rebecca21951651 @Daoyu15 @ban_epp_gofroc @nytimes @Bryce_Nickels @jbloom_lab @R_H_Ebright @stevenemassey @mbw61567742 @AFP @flodebarre @JoelAchenbach The article puts these quotes back-to-back without noticing the contradiction
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"They're eating the bats. They're eating the raccoon dogs." We've had the material for four years - scientists, newspapers, comedians singing "Asian minorities eat civet fingers 🎶"- and couldn't get traction. Trump says it once, and it goes platinum. Lab leakers can't meme. 😞
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