Core issue in doping suspension of Shelby Houlihan: No one knows what to believe!

1. Half +/- of elite T&F athletes dope w/ huge uncertainties based on best research: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
2. WADA has a track record of sanctioning innocent athletes: doi.org/10.1080/194069…

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According to USDA ARS 2020 saw almost no pork imports from Mexico to US Jul-Dec 2020

US pork imports from Mexico were 0.001% of total imports (and far less of total US pork consumption)

So these data say pork from Mexico unlikely basis for the AAF

Data: ers.usda.gov/data-products/… Image
Gonna have to write a post on anti-doping regulation and pork imports, aren't I?
If not tainted meat from Mexico claim has to be the food truck served extremely rare meat from boars (wild or domestic) & that this meat included offal & that this meat was accidentally substituted for the carne asada (beef) burrito that was ordered

Quite a series of assumptions
For me this helps to explain why the info released by CAS thus far indicates that Houlihan made a mainly procedural argument rather than substantive:
tas-cas.org/en/general-inf…

We will learn more when full case is released by CAS

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🧵One of the most remarkable aspects of science advice in the COVID-19 pandemic was how utterly unprepared the US government was ... I look back at how this happened from Bush to Obama to Trump in this post ... here is a short thread as well ...
The US government paid little attention to pandemic planning before Pres GHW Bush, who read a book on summer vacation in 2005 that sparked his interest
In fact, during his presidency in his public remarks Ronald Reagan only mentioned the word "pandemic" 1 time and GHWB not at all. Climate mentioned "pandemic" 16x, then GWB at 214
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I was curious
So I graphed percent of CONUS in drought according to the US drought monitor, data is weekly from 1/2000
droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx
Here from US EPA is the same data by drought category
epa.gov/climate-indica…
And here from EPA is a longer time series, 1895-2020 for CONUS
Note: On this graph up means wetter, down means dryer
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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
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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"
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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
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The database was taken down 12 Sept 2019 & never put back online

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

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