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14 May, 4 tweets, 4 min read
ENERGY WEEK: BEYOND THUNDERDOME
@robert_zubrin comes out swinging for nuclear power on FIGHT NIGHT at the Energy Week Cosmopolicast, exclusively @cosmo_globalist!
claireberlinski.substack.com/p/energy-week-… feat. @MoniqueCamarra, @VivekYKelkar, @iamhurst @benbawan, @is_OwenLewis, @RonSteenblik
And @robert_zubrin makes the extended case for nuclear in our essay of the day, and it's a humdinger:
"Per unit of energy, there is no safer source. Nuclear power is not only safer by far than fossil fuels—even excluding the claim that fossil fuels will wipe out the human race—but safer than wind, safer than hydropower, and safer than solar."
Properly calculated, he argues, "Solar power is not just more dangerous than PWR nuclear power [the only kind now in use], but more dangerous than Chernobyl."

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10 May
"Well, maybe the thing that just leveled San Francisco was an earthquake, or maybe it was a nuclear bomb. What difference would it make? There's nothing left here but a smoking crater, anyway."

Come on. Depending on the scenario, the implications are *massively* different.
If this leaked from a lab, and if this can be demonstrated even to a preponderance-of-evidence standard, it demonstrates that we must urgently prioritize the creation of a global biosecurity regime, one organized around laboratory safety.
There should be one anyway. But if he's right, and if the world were widely to understand that the pandemic emerged from a laboratory mishap of the kind Wade describes, there would be overwhelming public pressure on governments everywhere:
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10 May
This is true, and as @hlshaken said, the implications of this for our society are devastating and go far beyond this. If we now undergo some kind of Kuhnian Revolution and reevaluate our understanding of the pandemic's origins,
everyone who was involved in trying to obfuscate or delay the issues has some serious explaining to do. At least to him or herself. There's only so much pressure we can put on our institutions before they collapse, and we can't have much by way of a modern liberal democracy--
if collapse in scientific probity and journalistic integrity (or at least diligence) completely collapses.
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7 May
I did not finish this, and it seems it was a bit too technical to interest anyone, but man, it is in the technical parts that the interest lies, and again, if there's a #virologist out there who can rebut this, I am very eager to hear why this is wrong.
Wade writes: "of all known SARS-related beta-coronaviruses, only SARS2 possesses a furin cleavage site. All the other viruses have their S2 unit cleaved at a different site and by a different mechanism." True? False?
He then writes, "A string of amino acids like that of the furin cleavage site is much more likely to be acquired all together through a quite different process known as recombination." This seems to me alas very likely to be true.
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7 May
I would like to hear from any qualified #virologist who could tell me if this essay strikes him or her as unconvincing in its outline or its particulars, and why, precisely. It seems to me as close to conclusive as we can be absent direct evidence--
but I am not a virologist, nor even a biologist; surely there are aspects of this I don't understand. Nonetheless, here are the points he makes that strike me as compelling, and my specific questions about them:
1) The statement in the Lancet was organized by Daszak, who did indeed have a conflict of interest. That alone wouldn't especially strongly bother me--it's a fallacy to assume the statement wasn't correct because of that. But this does:
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6 May
This is the part that really interests me. As for myself, I don't understand the science well enough to have a strong view about climate change; my instincts are with the lukewarmers:
The planet will warm; but most of us will survive--or our descendents will--and humanity will figure out ways to cope. We've got hydrogen bombs pointed at our heads--this very minute--which strikes me as a much more pressing problem. That said,
I hadn't appreciated until I read that paragraph that young people might just *need,* emotionally, to feel they're saving the world. And compared to many other ways they could express this sentiment, building lots of solar panels and becoming vegetarians is fine with me.
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6 May
Looks like Macron opted for what, at the time, my grandfather suggested as the solution to Reagan's Bitburg dilemma. Anyone remember that? How Reagan got himself into a pickle when he agreed to visit Bitburg on the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII? nytimes.com/2021/05/05/wor…
He, or his protocol officials, apparently didn't know that 49 members of the Waffen-SS were buried there--and this was back when people still remembered who they were and what had happened in WW2--so there was quite a bit of agonized controversy:
If he pulled out, it would be terribly offensive; if he went, it would also be terribly offensive.
My grandfather--a Jewish refugee from Germany who joined the Légion étrangère and fought the Nazis on the Belgian border, so he knew the Nazis all too well--
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