"NIH approved the money even though the new director, Jay Bhattacharya, was critical of the idea of the lab just a year ago…'Why is it that only a small group of people gets to decide what risks the entire world gets to take?' he said at the time." @NIHDirector_Jay @SecKennedy

🎥 What on earth are rare earths? Why do they matter so much? Why do they nearly all come from China? And how worried should we be about the latest chapter in the trade war? These and more questions answered in my latest primer👇

Shown once. Then ruthlessly suppressed by Chanel 4 managment. Here is the only place to see it today. https://t.co/l78A8Xij4S Recommended.

Nice find by @jhas5 in newly released FIOA docs! A close collaborator of Ralph Baric - who sought to engineer “human-specific” FCS sites into S1/S2 of SARS-CoV-2-like viruses with the WIV - was working on ENaC-alpha, a protein carrying the same FCS motif found in the SARS-CoV-2

When you throw a ball at a wall, you can be sure it will bounce back at you. You would be extremely surprised if the ball suddenly appeared on the other side of the wall. In quantum mechanics this type of phenomenon is called tunnelling and is exactly the type of phenomenon that

🚪This is a door on a UK cancer ward. Behind this door is @plantypotter’s father-in-law. Sadly, he has Covid. Covid is an airborne virus. But staff are not required to wear an FFP mask to protect them from airborne transmission when entering the room. And so it will spread.

Epidemiologists of the world ! Where is your curiosity ? The emergence of SARS1 and SARS2 were quite different SARS2: human adapted, single introduction, no intermediate host ID-ed, no explanation for its appearance far from related species in S.China / Laos

In 2012, novelist Philip Roth discovered a "serious misstatement" about one of his books on @Wikipedia. Wikipedia claimed Roth's book "The Human Stain" was inspired by the life of writer Anatole Broyard. Roth said this was "in no way substantiated by fact." He should know: he

New book published this week by @ESYudkowsky & @So8res. - Endorsed by dozens of the most thoughtful & interesting humans on the planet (see below). - Addresses the most important issue that humanity faces. (FWIW, I read a pre-print a couple months ago, and I also strongly

These newly unearthed emails from @USRightToKnow (huge credit to them) about NIH deliberations on funding the Wuhan lab through Peter Daszak are jaw-dropping. They show that the NIH’s gain-of-function “review committee” was an absolute joke, a club of self-important

Fascinating hypothesis, by @tomaspueyo to explain why warm countries tend to be poorer. Is it really true that nobody has thought of this before? "We did not evolve in such warm places, and humans in warm countries don’t live where you think they live!"

@Bryce_Nickels @NIH @lewiskamb @USRightToKnow @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector_Jay @OIGatHHS @R_H_Ebright @johnstravis @jocelynkaiser @sudipsparikh @ScienceInsider @Nature @Magda_Skipper The short version is that @PeterDaszak 's research WAS paused because Stemmy et al DID FIND it was Gain of Function research of concern, but THEN it was un-paused by high-level intervention by Fauci+Collins, over-ruling @BarackObama 's moratorium. Note the date of this email

🚨BREAKING: @NIH continuing the Collins/Fauci-era tradition of misleading the American people on what was covered by 2014 GOF pause🚨 Yesterday, the NIH press team told @lewiskamb of @USRightToKnow that EcoHealth Alliance’s research --the very work that may have caused the

From ancient Egypt, more than 3,000 years ago ~ this wooden cosmetic spoon with handle in the shape of a biting, running jackal (ca 1539-1292 BC) https://t.co/FJXlm6jQfX

Astonishing sculpture of 60 detailed figures carved from a single block of Carrara marble ~ Francesco Bertos’ Fall of the Rebel Angels (ca 1730). Some suspected his skill was super-human, so he was hauled before the Inquisition. Tks @JonathanMendel1 https://t.co/rmaAXgaaVz

A truly epic discovery! It is about the super-Jupiter Wispit 2b, the first planet to be clearly identified while it is forming within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk. It is orbiting WISPIT 2, a young sun-like star located 430 ly away in the Aquila constellation. The

The JWST, using its NIRCam instrument, captured an immense stellar jet, 8 light-years long, that is almost twice the distance to Alpha Centauri. It lies at the heart of the galactic frontier, 15,000 light-years from the Sun, and originates from a colossal protostar, equivalent

Claim: Trump admin promises "maximum transparency" on COVID origins records Reality: After for weeks ignoring a federal court order to process 500 pages per month in our #FOIA suit, Trump's DIA just released 92 pages—58 of which we already had. The rest? It looks like this...

My main comment for @NIH listening session: Please dedicate funding for an independent panel to systematically track intra and extramural research with the potential to cause outbreaks. The aim is to intervene early, not wait to punish researchers after they cause a pandemic.

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