Maarten De Cock
@mdc_martinus
"[B]ioscurity problems at high-containment labs justify...developing enforceable safety standards for labs that conduct dual-use research...While voluntary standards exist, there is presently no enforced system for safety measures globally." city-journal.org/article/robert…
Good for you David Baldacci - standing up for authors rights against AI theft.
5. Novelist David Baldacci had a remarkable statement last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee. He points out that AI firms would fight violations of their source code copyright, but seem to have no problem violating his.
Electroreception in treehoppers: the superpower of detecting electric fields, which helps them distinguish friend from foe. Read here how "treehoppers can likely detect the electric fields of their predators and that sufficient electrostatic information exists in the #ecology of…
This is the central problem with higher education in the age of AI. We can't require students to do take-home writing assignments (e.g. term papers) any more, because most will cheat and have ChatGPT or Claude or Grok do the writing. But we can't teach critical thinking,…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
19/20C Danish artist Peter Vilhelm Ilsted created calm interiors with artful use of light ~ here he depicts a woman reading by candlelight / and by sunlight
‘What are we missing’? 👉The virus data deleted by the WIV in September 2019.
The Promise of Real-World Data for Research — What Are We Missing? nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Why do you think Public Health organisations lie about airborne transmission of pathogens?
👇The entire thread is worth reading. #OriginOfCovid
Conclusion: when millions of lives are at stake, don’t outsource your thinking - especially not to those with potential conflicts of interest. Groupthink too often breeds stupidity, carelessness and serious harm. Follow the evidence, not potentially conflicted scientists.
In the final days of his life in a Nazi prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that stupidity arises not from a lack of intelligence, but from submission to authority and groupthink - a mindset that blinds people to facts and enables great harm. youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR…
The Trump administration’s failure to bring accountability for the origin of Covid is deeply troubling, not just for what it says about the past, but for what it reveals about the entrenched forces still running the show. Covid quite literally ended Trump’s presidency in 2020.…
.@ODNIgov under Tulsi Gabbard continues to withhold Covid origins records from the public:
Today, we filed #FOIA lawsuits against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Energy (DOE). In the case against the CIA, we seek intelligence related to General Zhou Yusen, who led a research team from the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military…
.@JamesCTobias' latest cache of FOIA documents (from the FBI) is incredible. *Everything* is redacted! 🙂But there's some good news: The "NSICG" will declassify them on 12-31-2048 !! @DrJBhattacharya @RandPaul x.com/JamesCTobias/s…
Heavily redacted FBI records re: covid origins: documentcloud.org/documents/2600…
It's all about the small print when trying to prohibit dangerous GOF: bad faith actors will try to skirt the ban using sophistry and wordplay
In accordance with Executive Order 14292, the Office of the Director asked NIAID to identify projects that could potentially fall under the definition of dangerous gain of function (dGOF) research. The NIAID staff identified those projects, but then inappropriately made an…
The proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations open the door to the kind of narrative management, propaganda, and censorship that we saw during the COVID pandemic. The United States can cooperate with other nations without jeopardizing our civil liberties,…
New documentary on Covid origins (filmed 2023) featuring key people on both sides of the debate. On the lab leak side; @Ayjchan, DRASTIC represented by @gdemaneuf and @ydeigin, US policy experts David Asher, Jeffrey Sachs and @JamieMetzl, and journalists @emilyakopp and…
👇 can these researchers testify? "two researchers working at a US laboratory who were collaborating with the Wuhan institute. They said the Wuhan scientists had inserted furin cleavage sites into viruses in 2019 in exactly the way proposed in Daszak" x.com/Biorealism/sta…
The investigators spoke to two researchers working at a US laboratory who were collaborating with the Wuhan institute. They said the Wuhan scientists had inserted furin cleavage sites into viruses in 2019 in exactly the way proposed in Daszak’s... archive.is/BoPrc
Multiple people from the NIH testified that gain-of-function research was happening, directly contradicting Dr. Fauci’s position that this dangerous research was not taking place. We also have testimony from those who received these funds for the research. There’s no doubt that…