Stuart Neil

You didn’t publish… how convenient

Quay is a quack, a liar and a conspiracist hiding behind his expertise in an unrelated field to give a patina of plausibility to his lab leak fantasies. His thesis of genetic engineering is laughable to anyone who has ever worked with RNA viruses.

Quay is a crank. He starts for a conclusion and works backwards. As he has no idea of the actual virology his assumptions are all BS. Therefore he gets the answer he wants

This is the point. Though it pains me to say, as a scientist in his field he is immensely accomplished. But that doesn’t mean he is (as he clearly believes) infallible. Ironically the papers he rails against as ‘fraud’ by ‘stooges’ may have detractors, but have so far resisted all serious punches.

What is lamentable (and this applies to many senior bacteriologists in my recent experience) is that he doesn’t see that the same BioSafety and biosecurity issues that virologists have to deal with are exactly the same for him. And selecting drug resistance in pathogenic bacteria is GoF.

This is the point. Though it pains me to say, as a scientist in his field he is immensely accomplished. But that doesn’t mean he is (as he clearly believes) infallible. Ironically the papers he rails against as ‘fraud’ by ‘stooges’ may have detractors, but have so far resisted all serious punches.

Turns out Richard Ebright too has a track record of publishing crap…who’d have thought it.

Just wait and see how much GoF research he does with dangerous pathogens at arms length….

I couldn't resist

Yes sure

Debris is spreading yeast from the crash site

Completely agree

Indeed, but that doesn’t mandate equal probability of a lab leak. The multiple lines of existing data is sufficient to make a compelling case for the market as the epicenter of SC2 emergence. Ultimately there is no evidence for the lab that is compatible with the existing data.

The Lab-Leak Hypothesis Made It Harder for Scientists to Seek the Truth Virus origin stories have always been prone to conspiracy theories. COVID disinformation has threatened research—and lives

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
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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

There is no justification for this.

If this picture had been in black and white, where and when would one think it had been taken?

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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (2009 Remaster) Black Sabbath · Sabbath Bloody Sabbath · Song · 1973

Blasting my favourite Sabbath 1.0 tune in honour of Ozzy

It’s a close run thing but this is a perfect metal song

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Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath singer and godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76 just weeks after farewell show — CNN Ozzy Osbourne, the hellraising frontman of Black Sabbath and reality TV star, has died aged 76.

Oh no. RIP Ozzy

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I fear this story is wasted on the Daily Mail readership

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Exclusive: Kennedy's new vaccine adviser was expert witness against Merck vaccine One of the new vaccine advisers picked by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has earned thousands of dollars as an expert witness in litigation against Merck’s Gardasil vaccine, court records show.

Kuldorff is not a scientist. He is a venal antivax activist for hire masquerading as an academic.

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Maybe paleoretrovirology…as opposed to viral archeology

Virologist and HIV expert Dr. Michael Emerman retires During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He co-founded the field of paleovirology and consi...

Michael Emerman is retiring from the Fred Hutch after an amazing career of science and mentorship. A great scientist and a very nice guy. His keynote at Cold Spring Harbor this year was fantastic.

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Apparently @gidmk.bsky.social has ‘shirts for brains’ according to the Rutgers misogynist rage tweeter and BSNow CiC. Seemingly because he has the temerity to look at the data and conclude that there is no evidence for a lab leak.

I do hope that the shirts are loud with a Raccoon Dog print on them.

Promoters of Unproven COVID Lab Leak Narratives Join NIH Virologists expressed concern over under-qualified ideologues joining Director Bhattacharya.

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Excellent article laying out the inexperience , inadequacy, incapability and downright idiocy of the conspiracy lunatics that that JB has surrounded himself with.

One small correction. Washburne’s unpublished article is not controversial, it is fraudulent

Again this is what happens when you put idiots in charge of HHS and NIH, and those with concerns not having sensible discussions on the facts about high containment research, but instead throwing their lot in with the conspiracists and face eating leopards. I have no sympathy for Relman or Lipsitch

Measles: Child dies at Alder Hey Children's hospital as cases surge Seventeen children have been treated at the Liverpool hospital for the virus since June.

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In parts of Liverpool and Manchester vaccination rates are 20% below where they need to be.

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns Trump executive order leads to pauses on U.S.-funded research into TB, influenza, COVID-19, and other diseases, dismaying some scientists

What, are you saying Edward Hammond, Bryce Nickels, Alex Washburne and Memoli are fucking idiots pursuing ideological vendettas under the guidance of their mentor in chief Ebright?

I wish someone had warned us….

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A BBC news headline which says “Penguin says it did “all necessary due diligence” with The Salt Path

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

Excellent and considered post. A must read

Why is the Met Office adopting the language of climate alarmism? The forecaster exists to predict the weather, but our national service seems to have been embarrassingly duped by activists

the Viscount Ridley really can't help himself adopting any passing consipracy theory.

Here the UK met office is prediciting poltically motivated weather 🤦‍♂️

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Question Time: Glastonbury’s Israel fallout, New York’s socialist mayor and why NATO called Trump ‘daddy’ Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 02/07/2025 · 41m

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Good discussion about GAVI but please @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social RFKjr is NOT a vaccine skeptic. He is an antivax activist. He hides behind this mantra of being only for ‘vaccine safety’. But he is destroying global progress achieved by completely safe vaccines