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Re: Politicized science

February 19th, 2021, 8:45 pm

Biden mandates that the term "alien" shall henceforth be replaced in all federal documents by "non-citizen". 

Coincidentally, NASA just landed a rover on Mars to continue the search for non-citizen life.
 
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Re: Politicized science

February 20th, 2021, 12:05 am

Hmm. I had grown comfortable with my “resident alien” status. I have a friend who was classified as an “exceptional alien”. I believe he has an extra antenna.
 
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Re: Politicized science

February 20th, 2021, 12:14 am

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Re: Politicized science

February 21st, 2021, 12:03 am

Biden mandates that the term "alien" shall henceforth be replaced in all federal documents by "non-citizen". 

Coincidentally, NASA just landed a rover on Mars to continue the search for non-citizen life.
Such a term would be non-citizen to most people.
 
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Re: Politicized science

April 13th, 2021, 11:07 pm

The pandemic roundtable discussion that Youtube decided would make your head explode (and so banned it). 
Watch at your own risk.
 
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Re: Politicized science

June 10th, 2023, 2:01 pm

Medical Journal’s False Consensus on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ (wsj opinion)
Springer has decided to retract a paper, that received activist blowback, on a technicality.
 
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Re: Politicized science

June 16th, 2023, 2:00 pm

First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

If confirmed, this is major news, and essentially confirms the lab leak theory. 

If it's confirmed, the next big question becomes: what exactly leaked: 
a natural virus or a partially engineered one (furin cleavage site, etc)?
 
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Re: Politicized science

June 16th, 2023, 2:20 pm

First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

If confirmed, this is major news, and essentially confirms the lab leak theory. 

If it's confirmed, the next big question becomes: what exactly leaked: 
a natural virus or a partially engineered one (furin cleavage site, etc)?

Amazingly, it took a law to compel the release of this information.
And the deadline for that release is June 20, 2023.
 
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Re: Politicized science

June 17th, 2023, 6:48 am

First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

If confirmed, this is major news, and essentially confirms the lab leak theory. 

If it's confirmed, the next big question becomes: what exactly leaked: 
a natural virus or a partially engineered one (furin cleavage site, etc)?
If it's confirmed, the big question is who covered it up and why. Yes, obvs the Chinese, no surprise there. But in the west?
 
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Re: Politicized science

June 17th, 2023, 4:15 pm

First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

If confirmed, this is major news, and essentially confirms the lab leak theory. 

If it's confirmed, the next big question becomes: what exactly leaked: 
a natural virus or a partially engineered one (furin cleavage site, etc)?
If it's confirmed, the big question is who covered it up and why. Yes, obvs the Chinese, no surprise there. But in the west?

Well, in the US, the NIH indirectly (through a grant to the ECO Health alliance)  partially funded the research. So, I think some coverup motives are clear from that.

The WHO assisted in deflecting the blame for reasons explained in the link.

Back to the NIH, there are the notorious Fauci et al teleconferences of early 2020 
 
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Re: Politicized science

June 17th, 2023, 7:15 pm

Well, I think we now have a large sample of unwilling volunteers for some particularly unpleasant medical research.
 
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Re: Politicized science

June 24th, 2023, 2:44 pm

First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

If confirmed, this is major news, and essentially confirms the lab leak theory. 

If it's confirmed, the next big question becomes: what exactly leaked: 
a natural virus or a partially engineered one (furin cleavage site, etc)?

Amazingly, it took a law to compel the release of this information.
And the deadline for that release is June 20, 2023.

The unclassified part of the release did not live up to the hype. Apparently all the researcher names are in a classified Appendix, if anywhere. The unclassified part said WIV researchers got ill in fall 2019, but did not definitively conclude they had Covid. So, not the lab-leak "smoking gun" IMO, and the controversy will continue.   

Alina Chan on Twitter
(She is the co-author of the excellent "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19").
 
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Re: Politicized science

September 13th, 2023, 4:46 pm

I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published
I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That’s not the way science should work.

By Patrick T Brown
September 5, 2023
 
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Re: Politicized science

September 14th, 2023, 12:58 am

I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That’s not the way science should work.
Is it really anything new?

"Science progresses one funeral at a time" -- Max Planck, circa 1950
 
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Re: Politicized science

September 14th, 2023, 2:47 pm

I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That’s not the way science should work.
Is it really anything new?

"Science progresses one funeral at a time" -- Max Planck, circa 1950

I think it's old news that Climate Science is highly politicized. 
It's also old news that both Nature and its sister publication Scientific American have developed a left-wing bias. 
What's new here is an insider's confession of how he consciously biased an article to play to the politics. 
It could become a classic similar to the Sokal affair

A good take on how science is supposed to be done is R.P. Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement address: 
Cargo Cult Science