Philipp Markolin, PhD

Guess the cat is out of the bag. Today marks the beginning of the end of the false #lableak narrative. Read what I have been working on over the last years: protagonist-science.com/p/exclusive-th…

Great article! After 5 yrs of fact-free op Eds explaining how they think public health should be done, “let it rip” pundits are in power. So how’s it going at NIH, FDA, ACIP, HHS as they live out their fantasies at our expense? sciencebasedmedicine.org/opinionclass/

From @JohnTierneyNYC to @GeorgeWill, sheltered do-nothing pundits are rewriting the history of the pandemic, spreading disinformation, and practicing focused protection from reality. My latest for @ScienceBasedMed sciencebasedmedicine.org/opinionclass/

Brief summary of three use cases that should work (and don’t, really): Coding: lots of hype, but realistically is limited to prototyping greenfield projects. Risk of significant harm when used on existing code, and frequent context collapse means constant “re-education” of…

LOL, the Destiny video thumbnail gave me laser eyes. I have so many questions:

Interview with Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei on his documentary film Blame which takes on the COVID origin conspiracy. @Christi50503408 @PhilippMarkolin @PeterDaszak @Antonio_Caramia @hiltzikm @MichaelWorobey wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Remarkable interview, deep, insightful, thought-provoking. ..and I say this as somebody who got to know Christian quite well in the last years. He is an artist through- and through; because if this, he manages to reveal and magnify what scientists often struggle with expressing

docedge.nz/events/blame/

NEW from me: The sad, sad state of the New York Times: presswatchers.org/2025/07/the-sa…

I write a lot about Covid origins. I thought the lab leak theory made sense, back in 2020, but I eventually came to realize that it's very unlikely to be true. Here's a summary of some long posts I've written and many shorter threads:

“The news from Germany are bad: heaven knows what the summer term 1933 will look like.” - John von Neumann ift.tt/BEUZTSw

Free downloadable guidebook that shows you how to deal with the current threats to science, academia, free speech... protagonist-science.com/p/the-anti-aut…

"Hype" seems to have become a core feature of Big Tech – seen in the rise of hype men like @elonmusk and @sama. But why? What is the role of hype in contemporary capitalism? My new paper argues the creation of a Critical Hype Studies. 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/016344…