Yanna Lambrinidou, PhD Profile picture
ethnographer. environmental health & policy scholar activist. mom, teacher, yogi. advocate for reimagining the field of engineering ethics. https://t.co/ogcTMKFAF1
May 4 18 tweets 4 min read
"Daszak has since the pandemic’s earliest days asserted that any suggestion an accident at his partnering lab could have sparked the pandemic is nothing more than conspiracy theory. But when pressed Daszak acknowledged he did ... @emilyakopp @USRightToKnow tinyurl.com/4x2688ap
Image ... not have perfect insight into all of the samples stored there, the viruses sequenced there or whether the lab moved forward with high-risk research proposals, instead simply insisting that his colleagues in Wuhan are 'good scientists.' [...] The bipartisan questioning ...
Mar 16 4 tweets 1 min read
Agreed. So, how exactly do we confront the fact that one of the world's top scientific journals (@ScienceMagazine) and, by extension, its parent organization (@AAAS) have been, a) systematically deceiving the global community about what is known and not known about the ... #OriginOfCovid, b) granting the award for "Scientific Freedom and Responsibility" to authoritarian scientists (like #PeterHotez) who stigmatize and antagonize those who dare question their reductionist mantras about immensely complex phenomena, and c) amplifying actions by ...
Jan 27 10 tweets 2 min read
Please take a moment to read this short twitter chain by my friend, colleague, and fellow @BiosafetyNow board member Dr. @jbkinney. Justin is a Princeton-trained physicist and quantitative biologist whose work focuses on developing "next-generation DNA sequencing as a tool ... ... for dissecting the biophysical mechanisms of gene regulation." But he's also a firm believer in the idea that science's place is, first and foremost, in service of society — not of scientists' publications, funding streams, awards, and careers, and certainly not of their ...
Feb 22, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
"Sam, I actually started on the same foot as you. So I was more interested in how the virus was causing disease in people before I read that it was not mutating much. And that's when the alarm went off that this might have come from a lab ..." - @Ayjchan samharris.org/podcasts/makin… "We are going to talk about the origins of COVID, but in the background, and perhaps explicitly, we're also talking about the political corruption of science ..." - #SamHarris @MakingSenseHQ