It was nice to read @zachhensel.bsky.social 's Op Ed in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten "Let's return to an evidence-based debate about the corona pandemic" Google-translated version: www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...

Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy probably doesn't give babies autism. Now unlocked for all to read gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...

Full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H55...

"Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter." Absolutely. And, importantly, thanks to the inflammatory rhetoric, falsehoods, disinformation, and conspiracy theories constantly spouted by the very same person who's responsible for the agency - HHS Secretary RFK Jr. He must go.

New post up on Substack: I wrote about why frames beat facts, and why this Administration relies so heavily on “Files” dumps to shape reality & feed the base 🍽🧟‍♂️ The Twitter Files model is now foundational for MAGA. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof... (If you prefer Ghost, signup @ reneediresta.com)

I will never get over how creepy it is how the NIH X account is a full time propaganda machine now

More than 3yrs down the line this has held up surprisingly well, very much because of @lewan.bsky.social prescience borne from climategate and previous clashes with USRTK What we couldn’t predict was how the conspiracists would destroy US biomed science www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger. This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust. Now, we respond 👇 theconversation.com/how-conspira...

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What has always irritated me about this debate - and what I discuss in this piece - is how the lab leak has never had a shred of evidence supporting it. People are using the same arguments today that they were in 2020. Meanwhile, zoonosis has only gotten more likely over time.

I expanded this thread about the hypocrisy of HHS and NIH leadership for spending half a billion dollars on an ancient vaccine technology that was tested with “dangerous gain-of-function” research. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gold-stand...

How did the pandemic start? I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game. gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...

Okay, this isn't hitting quite like I hoped it would, maybe because people are tired of hearing about the death of American science. So how about this: I also go into combat mode at Bhattacharya & his clown car of minions' efforts to destroy virology. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gain-of-fi...

Har skrevet litt om vitenskapsjournalistikk i forbindelse med utgivelsen av boka "Mysteriet i Wuhan", men også dekningen forut for dette Sviktende vitenskaps­journalistikk share.google/qHTZ8SzwovQI... dette.

@drsagvolden.bsky.social criticize Norwegian Press in @journalisten-norge.bsky.social for hyping the lab leak bestselling book "Mysteriet i Wuhan". @kgandersen.bsky.social www.journalisten.no/sviktende-vi...

So ‘inconclusive’ is a meaningless word to smooth criticism from outside, but doesn’t mean what the lab leakers want it to mean. The panel is very clearly that the weight of evidence makes zoonotic emergence most likely. What is unknown is how it got there.

Quick thread on the WHO's SAGO report on the origins of COVID-19, highlighting key points and even *new* data. Their summary is that a zoonotic origin of COVID-19 is best supported by available data. This is consistent with most scientific reviews and statements in the rest of the literature.

Disappointing from @janeqiu.bsky.social, who is well aware that scientists haven’t shut down legitimate inquiry into a “lab leak.” No evidence supports it. Trust is lost not by scientists publishing evidence, but by dishonest actors misrepresenting the evidence. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Op ed (in Norwegian): Why the lab leak theory still got so much attention. www.khrono.no/hvorfor-far-... @kgandersen.bsky.social @angelarasmussen.bsky.social

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Sigrid Bratlie has a book out in Norway with a theme of complaining about being called a conspiracy theorist. Today, she's reading a story illustrated by three mad scientists photoshopped around a witch's cauldron, and speculating that there's a conspiracy stretching from Wuhan to Oslo to La Jolla.

This month's bonus episode is about the rise of the lab leak theory from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by prominent liberal journalists.

Jeg har skrevet litt på Filter Nyheter om RFK, autisme, vaksiner og sånt. filternyheter.no/kommentar-he...

Apparently these people aren’t conspiracy theorists…..

Recommend reading this and others in @drsagvolden.bsky.social's threads. If you don't speak fluent Norwegian, you can make do w/ Swedish... (or even use Google translate at a pinch....😉)

Thread of threads: A chronology of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic (It is not exhaustive, but hopefully it is representative.) 🧵

Lindsay Beyerstein in 2021: Lab leak isn't going to die. newrepublic.com/article/1646...

“… peer-reviewed literature is dominated by articles supporting a zoonotic origin” while lab leak papers “are rare, fringe, and mutually incompatible with each other.” Correct. And it’s not because one side is “censored”. It’s because one side has zero evidence. www.factcheck.org/2025/05/trum...

Jeg har skrevet litt om Aftenpostens dekning av Trumps nye nettside om covidpandemiens opphav

En liten samling av mine skriblerier om opphavet til covidpandemien