In 2007, Ferguson and Martin Nowak attended an infectious diseases conference.. Co-organizers: Don Burke (Pittsburgh), Charles DeLisi (Boston University), Simon Levin (Princeton), Arnie Levine (IAS)..
Donald Burke co-wrote a paper on social distancing w/ Ferguson in 2006.
The Vaccine Modeling Initiative (VMI) is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and directed by Dr. Donald Burke, Dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
" Frank Sinatra was a strong supporter and activist for Jewish causes in the United States and Israel. According to Tom Santopietro, Sinatra was a "lifelong sympathizer with Jewish causes"".. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sin…
In 1944 Sinatra insisted on a Jewish friend, Manie Sacks , serving as godfather at his son's baptism over the vociferous protests of the priest "..
Margaret Atwood has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster), the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster might have been an ancestor:..
Webster is the subject of Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novel The Handmaid's Tale ..
"In The Handmaid's Tale, Gilead is the totalitarian, patriarchal theocracy that replaced the United States, established by a fundamentalist group called the Sons of Jacob after a coup. "
Unlike Palantir's explicit defense focus, DeepMind faces internal friction. Some workers have voted to unionize to block DeepMind models from being used in military or sovereign defense contracts. 🤔
Demis Hassabis , Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, has explicitly backed Google’s shift toward national security and military partnerships. This represents a significant reversal from his previous stance when DeepMind was acquired by Google.