Bryce Nickels
@Bryce_Nickels
Prof. of Genetics, @RutgersU, @Waksman_Inst co-founder, @BiosafetyNow ('23-24) media: @SciFrTheFringe ('24); @KIR_Film_Prod ('21-22) views expressed are my own
Only an ignoramus or a fraud would uncritically interview unindicted felon and promoter of science fraud Francis Collins,
Collins, like Fauci, violated federal policies on gain-of-function and enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research; committed conspiracy to defraud, fraud, and obstruction; used federal funds to commit crimes; and caused a pandemic that killed 20 million and cost $25 trillion.
The public has determined that many of your pandemic papers do not support key conclusions of evidence. When do you retract them?
Science is retracting the December 2010 Research Article, “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/44TL1hq
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Post-publication assessment by readers and reseachers over time determines valiidty. There is no other--absolutely no other--effective means to determine validity.
DID YOU KNOW? The bacterium at the center of this retracted 2010 paper was named GFAJ-1--short for “Give Felisa a Job”--a nod to lead author Felisa Wolfe-Simon. The strain’s name underscores the perverse incentives in science to over-hype non-results to advance your career.
Science is retracting the December 2010 Research Article, “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/44TL1hq
The fact that it took 15 years!!! to retract this paper—which was shown to be wrong only a few weeks after it was published—is yet another clear example of why scientific journals should be relegated to the dustbin of history.
Science is retracting the December 2010 Research Article, “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/44TL1hq
REMINDER - @RutgersU should “move pro-actively and rapidly” to comply with Title VI and Title IX. This shouldn’t be complicated or controversial.
No research university--no matter how large its endowment--can sustain a loss of federal funding. I urge @Rutgers to move pro-actively and rapidly to end the use of DEI statements, close DEI offices, cancel DEI programs, and ensure full compliance with Title VI and Title IX.
Good to see that--before USAID IG launched a criminal investigation, and HHS debarred him--Peter Daszak was working closely with amazeballs, totally unbiased reporters Kai Kupferschmidt and Jon Cohen of @ScienceMagazine. I'm sure the resulting article was 100% fact check true.
This time, we are comparing Deep Seek R1, DeepSeek V3, Grok 3, Llama 3.3 70B, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-4o on Daszak's calendar items about NatComms. DeepSeek R1 regularly surprises (image). @PeterDaszak @sciencecohen @Lake_Octopus @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp @thackerpd @mattwridley
Concur.
No research university--no matter how large its endowment--can sustain a loss of federal funding. I urge @Rutgers to move pro-actively and rapidly to end the use of DEI statements, close DEI offices, cancel DEI programs, and ensure full compliance with Title VI and Title IX.
Only a sociopath would knowingly fund research that has no civilian practical applications and poses high risk of killing tens of millions. Unfortunately, Anthony Fauci not only knowingly funded such research but also knowingly violated US-government policies to do so.
You run a government infectious disease research agency. You get a grant that proposes to carry out gain of function research into potentially dangerous coronaviruses. If you fund the grant you probably won’t learn anything useful, but 40 million people might die from a lab leak.…
Do hard things. Because there’s nothing better than a hard-earned win. The pain. The struggle. The resilience. The grit. And then, the reward. The joy of knowing that you paid the cost of entry for the thing you wanted to achieve. Hard things are good for the soul.
Biologically, optimism gives you an advantage. Protect it. Your brain performs significantly better in optimistic states - creativity, energy, and productivity all rise. Muting the negative is not only good for your mood, but your performance.
Patience is not always a virtue. Impatience is fuel for taking initiative. Being content to wait can make people reactive. A distaste for delays motivates them to be proactive. "Restless" kids often grow up to become resourceful adults.
Some people will tell you what you want to hear, And some people will tell you the truth. You'll have some clashes with the truth tellers... ...but in time will come to value periodic vinegar far more than the sweet syrup of lies.
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DEI destroys all it touches. And is unlawful. It must be extirpated.
"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana
A President who did so much for global public health Launched PEPFAR that has saved probably 30 million lives Invested heavily in pandemic preparedness and biosecurity risk mitigation And a lot more The world is better for his leadership
Concur.
I was indoctrinated to love America. There’s literally nothing that you could tell me about America that would make me stop loving it. I know this because I’ve imbibed most of the canon of anti-American complaint with no alteration in my baseline feeling for my country. This is…
I think a lot about the fact that only about 4% of the world’s population lives in the US — and how incredibly lucky I was to be born in the best country in earth. And won’t spend a single day of my life taking that fact for granted. I’m beyond proud to be an American. Happy…
The professor caught lying about funding he sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, now claims that others are making false statements about research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This garbage, everyday on social media.