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Larry Sanger

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Jun 22

Well, that’s that—I’ve been blocked by Wikipedia “indefinitely” for unstated reasons, by the “consensus” of a mob. There was no due process, no prosecutor, no dispassionate judge, no jury, no interpretation of law. All my judges were self-selected and hated me. 🤣

If you want to see the circus that decided my fate in such a bizarre and irregular way, go here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Be sure to look at my defense:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

I’ll be telling the story from my own perspective, and what we can learn from it, soon enough. (Incognito for the next few hours BTW.)

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Larry Sanger

@lsanger

Jun 19

Here is an analysis by Grok (Expert tier) of the four PDFs just released by @TulsiGabbard. @elonmusk interesting both for conclusions and 🦾 comparison with other LLM analyses.

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(Quoting Grok now.)

Here are the top 8 most explosive findings from the four declassified PDFs released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard on June 18, 2026. I prioritized the most shocking, previously non-public or under-reported items that directly bear on the lab-origin hypothesis, NIH/Fauci funding of high-risk research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), conflicts of interest, and early U.S. government assessments. These stand out from the ~400 pages across the documents (many heavily redacted).

I focused on material that is new, confirmatory in a stronger way than prior leaks, or shows internal U.S. government awareness that contradicts public narratives at the time. Less explosive or already widely discussed items (e.g., general seropositivity data or routine news summaries) were deprioritized.

1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (May 2020) formally assessed that all necessary conditions for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified, human-adapted coronavirus were present at the WIV in mid-to-late 2019, and placed equal weight on the lab-modification hypothesis.

The Z Program report states explicitly: “We assess all of the necessary conditions for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified coronavirus—specifically a coronavirus adapted to recognize human cell receptors—were present at the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in mid-to-late 2019. As a result, we place equal weight on the hypothesis that the COVID-19 virus was a result of laboratory modification, along with that of a natural outbreak or the release from a laboratory of a naturally-occurring virus.”

It lists the four required conditions: (1) precursor viruses with high genetic similarity, (2) laboratory use of reverse genetic systems to modify coronaviruses, (3) laboratory testing to see if the virus can enter human cells and cause disease via ACE2 receptors, and (4) accidents with coronavirus materials. A figure titled “Gain of function framework with bat coronaviruses” shows the full pipeline (targeted mutation/reverse genetics → cell entry/replication assessment → animal pathogenesis/transmission/virulence testing → gain-of-function characterization in humanized mice or equivalent) as having occurred at WIV both circa 2017 and in late 2019. This is one of the earliest, most authoritative U.S. government technical assessments treating lab modification as equally plausible.

2. The NIAID (Fauci’s institute) grant to EcoHealth Alliance/Peter Daszak explicitly funded reverse genetics, creation of spike/receptor-binding mutants to test adaptation to human ACE2, pseudovirus assays, and infection experiments in humanized mice using bat coronaviruses — work conducted with WIV researchers.

The Year 5 interim report for grant R01AI110964 (“Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” active through May 31, 2019) details Specific Aim 3: “We will test our models of host range (i.e. emergence potential) experimentally using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments in cell culture and humanized mice.”

It continues: “We will do this by sequencing the spike (or other receptor binding/fusion) protein genes from all our bat-CoVs, creating mutants to identify how significantly each would need to evolve to use ACE2... We will then use receptor-mutant pseudovirus binding assays, in vitro studies in bat, primate, human and other species’ cell lines, and with humanized mice where particularly interesting viruses are identified...”

This matches the precise type of “gain-of-function”/directed adaptation research long alleged by lab-leak proponents. The work involved WIV collaborators (Shi Zhengli et al. are named in dissemination sections), and the grant was administered through EcoHealth Alliance with Daszak as PI.

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Larry Sanger

@lsanger

Jun 19

Tulsi Gabbard just released four PDFs that, she says, show that Fauci funded the very research that created COVID-19.

I fed Claude the four PDFs. 🧵 It uncovered some never-yet-revealed blockbusters.

(The following is all Claude—I am just quoting it.)

1. The IC Inspector General Filed a Classified Whistleblower Complaint Alleging Intelligence Contradicted Fauci's Testimony — and the DNI's Office Effectively Buried It.
DNI General Counsel Chris Fonzone emailed DNI Avril Haines on August 19, 2021, describing a whistleblower complaint alleging that classified intelligence reporting contradicted Fauci's sworn testimony to Congress that NIH never funded gain-of-function research at WIV. Rather than refer it to the HHS Inspector General for independent investigation, Fonzone recommended referring it to HHS Secretary Becerra — Fauci's own boss — noting that Becerra had told Haines it was "something they've considered" and that Fauci had a "point he's repeated." The draft letter was revised to route the complaint to Becerra instead of the HHS IG. This is a previously classified paper trail showing the Biden-era DNI's office treating a formal whistleblower complaint about potential perjury as essentially a bureaucratic matter to be absorbed by the accused's own department.

2. FBI Likely Gave False Information to Congress About a Key COVID-Origins Interview.
In a classified September 2024 readout of an HPSCI briefing, the ODNI lead briefer flagged that when Rep. Wenstrup asked the FBI briefer point-blank whether they had interviewed a specific individual about COVID origins, the FBI rep said yes, and that the information informed FBI's assessment. The ODNI briefer's internal email states bluntly that the IC's own records show this individual was not interviewed by FBI until late June 2021 — three months after FBI made its origins call — and that at the interview the individual "said nothing about COVID origins." The briefer's conclusion: "FBI has either been withholding information from the rest of the IC, or they provided inaccurate information on the record." The FBI briefer did not respond to his follow-up request.

3. Classified Readout of Fauci's CIA Briefing Shows He Steered the IC Toward Natural-Origin Scientists.
On June 4, 2021, CIA's Weapons and Counterproliferation Mission Center (WCPMC) briefed Fauci on classified COVID-origins intelligence from the President's Daily Brief. The previously classified readout shows that Fauci directed CIA to connect with specific scientists — described as individuals who "have advocated for features of the virus that they judge to be consistent with a natural origin." He was being briefed on the IC's classified analysis while simultaneously recommending that the IC consult experts who supported his preferred conclusion. The readout also notes he "did not appear to be aware" of certain specifics about WIV's pangolin research that CIA had uncovered.

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Larry Sanger

@lsanger

Jun 8

The world (especially Europe) is continuing its appalling downward spiral toward total speech control and total monitoring. And the bovine people are mostly apathetic. The following stories have appeared in the last week.

It's getting bad out there, folks. 🧵

A German court fined a citizen some €2,000 for calling Chancellor Friedrich Merz "Lügenfritz" ("Lying Fritz") in a Facebook comment.

A second user got the same fine for a cruder insult.

In Section 188 of the German criminal code, politicians get protection ordinary citizens don't have. It's like they've entirely forgotten what happened in the 1930s and 40s.

AfD MP Beatrix von Storch then posted on X: "Chancellor Merz is a lying Fritz. To the competent public prosecutor's office: Please investigate me now." 💪 x.com/Beatrix_vStorc…

It is essential to a functioning democracy that we be able to talk back to our elected leaders. That's not allowed in Germany anymore. Shame, Germans, shame!

europeanconservative.com/articles/news/…

Britain banned Cenk Uygur (of Young Turks fame) and his nephew Hasan Piker from entering the country for events in London and Oxford, because that might fuel antisemitism. Yes, really.

FIRE's Angel Eduardo: "Barring their entry and thinking you've shut them down is like having your opponent killed in the locker room before a boxing match and declaring yourself the champion… Keeping them from speaking on your shores isn't going to silence them at all. It's just going to give them even more to talk about."

Say what you want about Cenk, it's absurd that the land of Locke and Burke would be reduced to this. Shame, Britishers, shame!

expression.fire.org/p/firewire-jun…

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Larry Sanger

@lsanger

Apr 22

1/ Just built a Ruby CLI tool with Claude. Fetches ~93 Wikipedia pages, splits them into sections, classifies each via LLM, scores and ranks them, builds a cool, useful table. ~1500 lines of code. Seven sessions. I wrote virtually none of it myself. 🧵

2/ It's for WikiProject Intellectual Diversity—monitors policy talk pages and noticeboards for discussions relevant to the project's goals. Hundreds of active threads at any time, most irrelevant. The scanner finds the ones that aren't.

3/ My role: project owner/manager. Claude's role: programmer. Yup—that's it.

I made design decisions: what to build, how to score things, what to ask the LLM, which pages to monitor. Claude translated those into working Ruby. Almost everything worked first try.

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Larry Sanger

@lsanger

Apr 13

I’ve compiled a clause-level synthetic harmony of the Passion narrative from all four Gospels, from the conspiracy through the Ascension.

Every significant detail from every Gospel, color-coded by source, woven into a single continuous narrative.

Samples 👇

It reads naturally. It all fits together well, with details illuminating each other, no dishonest fudging, nothing made up, no detail left out. That fact is itself an interesting argument.

Read (free) and share: larrysanger.org/2026/04/harmon…

If the Bible is all true and its words describe the same real events from different perspectives, then there is nothing wrong with the project in principle.

Showing that it’s possible would be part of a demonstration of the Bible’s truth.

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