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10 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
How to make biomedical research (and biosafety labs) less dangerous and more ethical, post-COVID-19 thebulletin.org/?p=86600 via @BulletinAtomic
I've noted some confusion over whether EHA and/or WIV was actively involved with so-called "gain of cuntion research"

This article says EHA was
No one in gov't monitors or tracks laboratory acquired infections
Covid-19 aside, this needs fixing ASAP
Some very smart recommendations here by @LauraKahn1 @BulletinAtomic

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9 Jun
In 2016, at 1:15:50 of video linked, Peter Daszak describes research done by Chinese colleagues to increase the pathogenicity of SAR-like viruses ("you insert the spike protein") from bats to produce viruses that "really do look like killers"
c-span.org/video/?404875-…
We can now conclude with certainty

a) There exists a reservoir of pathogenic SARS-like viruses among bats in caves in Yunnan
b) There exists a reservoir of pathogenic SARS-like viruses among labs in Wuhan

Both reservoirs could be proximal origins of Covid-19
That's just logic
#DRASTIC documents the taking down of the WIV database associated w/ work discussed by Daszak above

The database was taken down 12 Sept 2019 & never put back online

Its characterization was changed 30 Dec 2019 when China announced 1st case

researchgate.net/publication/34…
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7 Jun
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Last month my op-ed in @FT on outdated climate scenarios of the NGFS used by central banks around the world to assess future climate risk & climate policy risk

I argued that the NGFS baseline scenario projected an implausible future for CO2 emissions
ft.com/content/a82a7b…
Today the NGFS has published newly updated climate scenarios ... and guess what? I was correct and to their credit, they are moving their baseline scenarios in the right direction

This thread has a quick analysis of NGFS 2.0

Here is how the new NGFS baseline (red) looks compared to that which I critiqued as implausible (blue)

NGFS 2.0 has emissions growing to ~2080 and plateauing thereafter

This is a massive revision is just a short time frame

Good for NGFS
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6 Jun
👀I was blocked by an academic at the center of the Covid lab leak questions for asking the question below

People are free to block whomever they want, but publicly-funded researchers send an interesting message when blocking peers for asking reasonable questions
Apparently Andersen was also caught out today selectively deleting old Tweets (in addition to blocking me)

This is not the behavior of someone interested in transparency, I wonder what is up
I've never met Andersen and my interactions with him consist of two friendly Tweets

So I'm ... curious
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6 Jun
This is an exceptionally well done documentary on COVID-19 origins, with English subtitles

Sars-Cov2 anatomia di un complotto - PresaDiretta 29/03/2021 via @YouTube
This is the most remarkable new information I learned from it

Chinese government views the publication of scientific research on COVID-19 like “moves in a game of chess”
This just further supports the need to carefully analyze the research record — that in public and that behind the scenes — to better under stand these “moves in a game of chess”

Science has been enlisted in a propaganda “game” in plain sight

rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/scientific-l…
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4 Jun
Mike Hulme's blistering critique of Michael Mann's Machichean world view and longstanding & successful effort to demonize his invented "enemies" is spot on: "Wars, battles, attacks, fights, and enemies litter its 260 pages"
issues.org/new-climate-wa…
In 2017 I gave a talk titled, "Climate Politics as Manichean Paranoia" which you can see here: rogerpielkejr.com/2017/07/24/cli…

In that talk I name-checked Mann as a leading proponent of a "paranoid style" of politics (slide below from my talk)
You can download slides from my talk here
drive.google.com/file/d/0B92CyI…
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2 Jun
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The policy questions related to trans athlete inclusion in mainstream sport are actually straightforward

Here is the question: Should trans athletes be allowed to participate in mainstream sport under the gender category that they are recognized in broader society?
There are just three answers to this question:

➡️No
➡️Yes, but regulated
➡️Yes

I am in the "yes, but regulated" category
I am aware of very few who argue "yes"
I hear a lot from the "no" folks

Let's take each in turn
"Yes"

This position is functionally equivalent to abandoning male/female categories in sport & calling for open competition

It is a great point of discussion for the classroom, but it for a range of reasons - practical, ethical, legal, societal - it is not desirable in practice
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