There are tens of thousands of cities in China, And tens of thousands of food markets, But Covid started close to the lab with the world's biggest collection of sarbecoviruses, And the most active program of manipulating them That alone is reason for investigating the lab.

In all the thousands of years of Chinese history a sarbecovirus with a furin cleavage site turned up the year after, and in the same city as, a plan was made to make such a virus.

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Ever since Coursera courses became very good, only to have basically no impact on higher ed, I've come to the belief that the biggest role of formal ed is to act as a commitment device for students to actually consume the information. AI will be transformative, but AI w/o that

C'mon Chairman Xi; do your thing and ban the trade and throw the ringleaders in jail. I'll grudgingly acknowledge the CCP as sole superpower if you pull it off.

Tragic.

If freakin' Kash Patel and his girlfriend manage to finally blow the cover of the giant Russian influence and manipulation campaign against the US that's been going on for years, he might go down in history as the biggest FBI boss since Hoover.

If Ralph Baric's papers showed he had Covid in the lab prior to the pandemic, why would scientists like me have endured years of being attacked and intimidated just for saying a lab origin of Covid is plausible?

India and Hindus are being targeted on Wikipedia. It's not one-off, it's not isolated. It's a systematic effort to delegitimize and demonize. We've seen the playbook before on Israel and Jewish topics. Now it's being rolled out by one more target of the Red-Green alliance.

The thing about the Red-Green- Khalistani alliance targetting of Indians and Hindus in particular is that they are relentless, creative, and very forward looking. The few interested in fighting back are mostly playing defense; the result is a whack-a-mole situation.

The greatest lightsaber duel in Starwars history with the Yoda-Palpatine | Windu-Palpatine duel being a close second. It's not just the scene; the background score gives me goosebumps and has fuelled many a cardio session.

Yes, and the Gates Foundation's support for insecticide-treated bednets proved to be the biggest single factor in the reduction in malaria deaths over the past 20 years.

When fighting a balrog, the trick is to fall into an endless pit with it. Worked for Glorfindel and Gandalf. You will eventually return with a halo. On this Easter, it is absurd that groyper-adjacent influencers claim these are not Christian themes but a pagan one.

So this guy just completely dismantled the fraudulent “Wuhan seafood market” paper. It was always obvious the thing was junk, but the extent of the flaws (lies) is almost impressive. At some point you have to drop the illusion that “peer review” and “prestigious journal” mean

Just so we’re clear: This thread’s entire method is: take incomplete early outbreak data, treat the sampling record as the transmission record, wave away every alternative as “not likely,” & then pretend the conclusion proved itself. It’s a just-so story dressed up as deduction.

for well over a decade liberal journos said it was a fake and some racist fever dream

"There's no evidence of Iran seeking a nuclear weapon" (1) Iran is enriching uranium to 60% purity, which far exceeds what’s required for civilian nuclear power (which is around 5%) or even research reactors (around 20%). (2) Iranian documents stolen by Israel (a theft

Elon will always be a Stephen King Fan despite King's hostility.

I still find it hard to believe this man was once Surgeon General of the United States and is now doing the most asinine straw man routine, pretending it doesn’t matter that a Chinese lab killed 20 million people because he once saw some random crank on Twitter claim it was just

First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…

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