Stuart Neil

Bruttel is such a crank his is own University disowned him and rubbished his work on their own website. And note to all the right wing nutjobs like the BSNow crew - they never curtailed his free speech. They just posted an expert response saying he was talking shite.

The relentless Jessica McDonald has spent two weeks and hundreds of emails to fact check claims about the safety of #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy made at the #ACIP meeting.

She couldn't have been any quicker.

A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.

You do wonder what this guy does with himself all day. If he’s not screen shotting us to post on X to almost no one, he’s rage commenting about every right-wing and proto-fascist talking point he comes across.

I get a little irked by headlines like this. Yes she was a leading ‘animal rights campaigner’ (conservationist really),

But first and foremost Jane Goodall was a scientist whose years of careful study of Chimp behavior revealed amazing understanding both of them and insight into our own evolution

Jane Goodall, famous for her study of chimpanzees, has died - Sky News

A hugely important scientist of the last century. RIP Jane Goodall.

Nigel Farage's security has been cut, Reform UK claims Reform's policy chief says parliamentary authorities downgraded Farage's security two weeks ago.

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I’m sure he can round up a bunch of boys from Tommy Robinson’s crew to fill in.

Just to be extra careful, he could dress them all in brown shirts so he knows who they are.

La oss vende tilbake til bevisene for koronapandemiens opprinnelse Jakten på pandemiens opprinnelse er for viktig til å bli avsporet av uvitenskapelige insinuasjoner.

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Excellent and pithy rebuttal to Norway’s own Jonny-come-lately lab leak conspiracist who had developed a self-promotion cottage industry

Exactly. Anyone who was paying attention and who subscribes to the maxim ‘when people tell you who they are, believe them’.

I also seem to remember Germany trying out a few of Nigel Farage’s ideas too, and that not ending well either.

Delighted to have won a Wellcome Discovery Award for 8 more years of transformative research. We will advance our knowledge of innate immune mechanisms using viruses and chemotherapeutics as tools.

Thanks to everyone who contributed along the way.

And if we had confidence that some of the interview panels had sufficient expertise and didnt just parrot the reviewers which is unfortunately too common

The people who get them deserve them, just not 8 years. Especially when the instruction for years 6-8 is essentially ‘blue skies it!’

just another day on the grift

Another classic from Matt Ridley. ‘I don’t want to believe this nonsense, but because people who know what they are talking about thought my theory was shit, I can’t help myself’ (see resurrecting Polio vax as source of AIDS too)

Ed Davey urges US cancer scientists to come to UK The Lib Dem leader will use his party conference speech to attack Donald Trump's

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Nice idea Ed, but with what funding? UKRI paylines are ridiculous at the moment, and Wellcome have people applying for 8 yr grants that no-one deserves to the detriment of the number of young investigator and project grants.

Disney furiously back-pedaling after realizing just how much caving to the wannabe fascist was going to cost them.

Presumably Fox News will be firing Hannity and their other major presenters to abide by the new standard demanded by Trump’s puppet broadcast regulator

Watched some of that. Certainly aligns with my experience of Matt Ridley from X, Viral and his spectator/telegraph columns. As usual he takes his political point of view and his financial interests and shapes his ‘scientific understanding’ around them. A charlatan and a shill.

If so then clearly they have been arrested for the heinous crime of ‘embarrassing the government and upsetting the right wing press’

Although if this were the US, JD Vance would want them arrested for domestic terrorism - and then berate the UK on free speech.

I guess it depends on where they are projecting it from… may be trespass

Looking forward to Nigel Farage, Toby Young and co condemning the arrest of people exercising their right to free speech. Wont be holding my breath.

Endogenous viral elements in termite genomes reveal extensive diversity of deltaviruses and provide insights into their origins Barreat et al. describe the discovery of deltavirus genomic fossils (ẟEVEs) in multiple species of termites. The wide expression of ẟEVEs in termites and a host gene fusion indicate that some ẟEVEs ma...

Termite genomes shed light on the enigmatic deltaviruses, their ancient origins, and an intriguing example of co-option of viral genes by a host.

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Given that their spiritual leader, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, likes to masquerade under the ‘nom-de-thug’ Tommy Robinson (one of several names he uses), why do so many of our right-wing nutters have such a problem with others identifying as things they’re not?

Gissa job.

Column: Two Rutgers professors are accused of poisoning the debate over COVID's origins. Here's why Richard Ebright and Bryce Nickels of Rutgers have labeled leading virologists fraudsters, perjurers, felons and murderers. Is this how scientific debate is supposed to be conducted?

Worse, they do so from behind their own institutional affiliation. And they have the gall to suggest that they are the victims here!
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The hypocrisy of people like Nickels and Ebright is off the charts. They've spent years calling innocent scientists war-criminals, murderers, corrupt, laced with misogyny and violent imagery - to the extent those people receive death threats every day and have to shell out of personal security.

What I find odd in the X cesspool, is the number of people who have already made up their minds that the perpetrator is a 'leftist' and associate themselves with Kirk as being similarly 'at risk' for 'truth-telling' because of their own unevidenced beliefs. Including LLers at Rutgers University.