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Jun 3 • 4 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
1. Good thread on new pseudoscience (disinformation) strategies pioneered on social media. I’ll add the climate view: check hashtags like #ClimateScam to see an emergent tactic, inventing or manipulating graphs (would be fraud in a scientific context). Supercharged with AI/LLMs.
2. Much disinformation is so stupid as to be funny. You should be able to tell why this meme by supposed Cambridge PhD DonKeiller (😂) is bs. They entertain us; but sadly also convince many uneducated people who can’t read science themselves, hence rely on trusted communicators. ImageImage
3. The deeper tragedy is: in reality climate science erred on the side of least drama (ESLD), failing to implement the precautionary principle in science, including the literature that IPCC scientists summarize. @ALevermann @PIK_Climate underestimate rates of change several-fold.
4. You can add arbitrarily many studies, but here the standard reference:

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Jun 5
1. How many years did SARS-CoV-1 survivors live on average? What were their COD? There were no reinfections. I can’t believe that I must share the question (for free on twitter) for there to be any public discourse; it should be all over the press. You have almost the same virus.
2. Influenza kills when viral load exceeds a threshold and the cell pops like a balloon. Western virologists don’t understand SARS doesn’t behave like this. Patients die in the acute phase from immune system dysfunction of NK/CD8+ cells and cytokine storm.
3. These differential dynamics are important because even today, western virologists use the wrong mental model for SARS. I assume their software packages can’t even model the SARS-CoV replication process. This explains their horrendous errors and deadly policy advice. 🧀🧠
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Jun 5
We now relive the “Roaring Twenties,” but with a SARS-virus that, unlike the 1918 pandemic influenza, establishes chronic infection and will take society down if left to evolve unmitigated. Party time 😈👇
@JessicaLexicus crashed the party before it was even endemic 😂👇 Image
We warn the “back to normal” party goers against significant ‘policy resistance’; the expected pushback to any kind of policy change.
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Jun 4
Yueting asked why traditional Chinese. The characters are pretty no? Without some element of language learning, my brain would rightly turn to dust. The compromises we make to stay on twitter: Image
Yes that's a significant human monkeypox virus hMPXV study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jm…
How long will it take the mainstream to accept that pox viruses, including human monkeypox virus (MPXV), are obviously airborne, ie we need NPIs and the same precautions as for SARS-CoV? Good super short comment: thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Smallpox is airborne, Mpox obviously too.
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Jun 3
1. In international law, genocide is the crime of crimes, committed with intent to destroy part or all of a group by killing, bodily or mentally harming its members. It’s a hard case. Even Ukraine accuses Russia not of genocide, but of falsely claiming Ukraine were committing it.
2. 26 Feb 2022, Ukraine requested provisional measures from the ICJ @CIJ_ICJ. Ukraine denies any act of genocide in Luhansk and Donetsk or anywhere in Ukraine and argues Russia has no lawful basis to take action in and against Ukraine's alleged genocide. icj-cij.org/case/182 ImageImageImageImage
3. This is how you practice international law. Some patients I used to interact with on twitter try to frame SARS-CoV-2 or vaccines as genocide. I distance myself from such attempts. This is political but no serious legal argument. To be taken seriously, engage legal scholarship.
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Jun 1
1. To add to @RealCheckMarker’s humor: I too am honored to see @TheVertlartnic grace my sarcastic scicomm tweet with a pithy headline. It is a shoutout to the epidemiologists, WHO and leaders who eradicated SARS-CoV-1 in 2003. No small feat as we now know.

Do the same again. 👍 ImageImage
2. This is funny because the middle is a screenshot from a locked account, shared here to explain the context of my original post. Otherwise it hangs a bit in the void.

SARS-CoV-1 and -2 are nearly the same (SARS) virus. We could have saved years by admitting it from the start. Image
3. It is not new. I’ve been cracking this joke since January 2020. If you see its long beard, you may think, “probably the lockdowns”.
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Jun 1
1. I discussed climate-AI interactions since 2017, so I appreciate @_david_ho_ being honest. (1) AI will significantly increase energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. (2) We will need capable AI to replace and help all the people with SARS-CoV associated neurocognitive decline.
2. Heads up to variant chasers, here interesting abstracts on SARS-CoV-2 mutation N:R203M, which increases viral load, and on Alzheimer’s disease. Good editorial work if that’s a conscious placement. Good luck everyone, reach out if you want solutions. 👍 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
3. Introductory thread on the nucleocapsid.
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