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In all animals, mating is a deal. But few creatures behave as if sex is a simple, even mutually beneficial, transaction. Many more treat it with reverence, suspicion, angst, and violence. Matt Ridley revisits Darwin's revelatory theory of mate choice through the close study of the peculiar rituals of birds, and considers how this mating process complicates our own view of human evolution. Ridley also explores the scientific research into the evolution of bright colors, exotic ornaments, and elaborate displays in birds around the world. Charles Darwin thought the purpose of such displays was to “charm” females. Though Darwin's theory was initially dismissed and buried for decades, recent scientific research has proven him newly right—there is a powerful evolutionary force quite distinct from natural selection: mate choice. In Birds, Sex and Beauty, Ridley reopens the history of Darwin's vexed theory, laying bare a century of disagreement about an idea so powerful, so weird, and so wonderful, we may have yet to fully understand its implications. Matt Ridley is the bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (with Alina Chan). His books have sold over a million copies. Ridley served in the House of Lords from 2013 to 2021 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest book is Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea.

A discussion with Matt Ridley on his book Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, written with Alina Chan, touches mostly on how the lab leak hypothesis is now an officially accepted explanation but how the mainstream media and academia are slow to admit it. The orthodoxy began with the excuse that they wanted to protect science, but they have done, and continue to do, the opposite.  Matt Ridley is an eminent science journalist. Writer of books "The Red Queen"; "Genome"; "How Innovation Works"; "The Evolution of Everything"; "The Origin of Virtue"; "Nature via Nature" and his latest "Viral: The Search for the Origins of Covid-19".  All are available on Amazon. His personal blog is here  Here, he also discusses the importance of "citizen journalists" and scientists in uncovering the suppression of evidence supporting the lab leak hypothesis of COVID-19.  Follow Matt on X @Mattwridley       

In 2020, Alina Chan called for the scientific community to not abandon a potential lab leak origin of SARS-CoV-2. She was called a conspiracy theorist and a race traitor. Her story and the search for the origins of COVID, four years later.

More than four years after the pandemic began, a source for COVID-19 still eludes scientists and public health officials. The mystery has given rise to a slew of hypotheses ranging from natural zoonotic transmission to lab leaks. But to get to the bottom and find the real source of the virus, you have to start with the evidence. Alina Chan is a scientific advisor at the Broad Institute and the co-author of the book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. She and her co-author Matt Ridley follow one evidence thread to the next in order to get closer to the truth. Alina joins Greg to chat about the two dominant hypotheses on COVID-19's source, the challenges and methodology of identifying a virus' origin, and why it's crucial we find out where COVID-19 came from. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:The debate over studying high-risk pathogens43:50: There are definitely people who think that all of this research should be banned, but I think that there should be a certain amount allowed to continue. Again, this sort of research, where there's actually any pandemic risk, constitute an extremely small fraction of virology. So, I would say, like, less than even a percent, maybe even less than that. So, most virology doesn't even concern animal viruses. And those that do often do not pose a risk to cause outbreaks in people. But there are these types of research projects that are now becoming more and more trendy around the world, following in the footsteps of U.S. leaders to take these pathogens that could cause outbreaks in people and study them in the labs. And it's unclear where the risk is because some of these labs are doing it at such low biosafety levels. Or is it because there are so many of these high-biosafety labs now, and the work is increasing, yet in these labs there's still room for human error.Public vs. scientists51:56: Your political affiliation doesn't determine anymore whether you think this virus was natural or came through a lab. I would say that the difference between the public and scientists is that scientists, especially experts, tend to lean on priors very heavily, as well as peer-reviewed literature. Is the focus on avoiding retroactive blame or preventing future research constraints?43:03: I think it's both. So, since then, and over the past few years, you've seen so many letters by virologists. Dozens of them have signed letters saying we are totally fine in the U.S. We do not need any more oversight or regulation. We are good at self-auditing and self-inspecting. We don't need any external oversight over our work. So, there's a clear fear amongst virologists that if this pandemic was started by a lab accident in Wuhan, they would become constrained as well, and that people would also perceive them to no longer just be the good guys but to be a source of risk and danger.Why bats carry so many viruses24:45: I think bats, aside from humans, are probably the most interesting mammalian species out there for virologists. It's because these bats have been found to carry so many different types of pathogens, many of which can jump into people. So, like Ebola, coronaviruses, both MERS and SARS were found to have come from reservoirs, for example, but they're quite similar to humans in the context that they live in large groups. So, you go into one of these caves, easily millions of bats in there, but actually, they're quite different. So, they can fly, and so their body has to adapt to handle that really high heat that happens when you're flapping your wings at such a high speed. And that is related to traits in bats that help them to coexist with so many of these viruses. So, these viruses, while they cause very severe diseases in people, in bats, they just live mostly in the gut and don't cause any severe disease. So, bats have this invulnerability in a sense to all these very dangerous pathogens.Show Links:Recommended Resources:Dr. Peter Daszak - EcoHealth Alliance Wuhan institute of VirologyRalph S. Baric“The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” | Nature MedicineGood Judgment case studyGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at Broad Institute Her Work:Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

In early June, Dr. Alina Chan published an essay in The New York Times arguing what the media once considered a conspiracy: Covid-19 originated in the Wuhan lab. The essay made waves on social media. To some, it was a breath of fresh air from the intelligentsia that validated long-held beliefs about where the costliest pandemic in modern history started. But to others, like our other guest today, it was irresponsible and scientifically misleading. Dr. John Moore is a prominent virologist and professor at Cornell University's Weill Medical College. He penned a rebuttal for “The Nation” in which he argued that The New York Times is badly failing their readers on Covid by publishing Chan's argument. Chan is not a virologist; she's a molecular biologist at Harvard and MIT's Broad Institute. Early on in the pandemic, however, she took an interest in understanding the origins of Covid. She then published a book about lab leak that she claims drew the ire of the media and scientific establishment. In this episode of We The 66, we share BOTH of their perspectives.

Alina Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She was a member of the Pathogens Project, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organized to generate new thinking on responsible, high-risk pathogen research.Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points, by Alina Chan for the New York TimesJon Stewart on Vaccine Science and the Wuhan Lab Theory - The Late Show with Stephen ColbertGround News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy52: The Amazing and Optimistic Future of Augmented Reality, with David Rose47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don't Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford31: Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, with Alina ChanFollow Alina on X: @ayjchan----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

In podcast #10 spraken Pepijn van Erp en Richard Engelfriet in een special uitgebreid met Stan van Pelt over de verschillende theorieën over de oorsprong van het coronavirus: zoönose of misschien toch een labongeluk? Wetenschapsjournalist Maarten Keulemans luisterde naar de podcast en had er wel wat op aan te merken. In deze 'nabrander' gaan we daarover met hem en ook Stan van Pelt verder in gesprek.Aanvullende lees- en kijkvoerNatuurlijk moet je eigenlijk eerst Skepsis podcast #10 – Oorsprong van het coronavirus beluisteren.Essay van Alina Chan in The New York Times: Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key PointsTWiV 1121: SARS-CoV2 still didn't come from a lab (bespreking door virologen van dat essay)En lees natuurlijk het artikel van Stan van Pelt in Skepter 37.2! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When we first started our podcast in the spring of 2015, Jim and Richard came from different political tribes. They still do. But during more than 400 shows they've deepened their friendship and learned a tremendous amount from each other, and our remarkable guests.While "How Do We Fix It?" podcast will continue its journey, Jim and Richard's nine years as co-hosts ends with this show. We discuss why the partnership is ending (spoiler alert: it's amicable!) and what they discovered about podcasting, politics, and how to navigate divisions at a time of rigid, painful divides."I feel like when we started, we were a couple of voices in the wilderness, searching for more open-minded conversations, looking for people willing to grapple with facts and ideas that don't fit their comfortable world views," says Jim."One of our last-minute decisions in those early days was to add a question mark to our title," says Richard. "I'm so glad we decided to do that, because fixing the current political mess starts with better listening and more challenging questions."In the years since we started our voices have grown into a movement. Some call it the bridging space with organizations such as Braver Angels, Heterodox Academy, Living Room Conversations, Listen First, Solutions Journalism Network, Common Ground Committee and many more. Media have also changed with the huge growth of podcasting, Substack, and new news sites such as The Free Press. We've enjoyed hearing from a remarkable range of guests. Among the most successful and persuasive experts are humble about their own opinions and accomplishments. They've been open-minded and curious about the views of those who sharply, and sometimes dismissively, disagreed with them. Standout examples include scientist Alina Chan, journalist and author Jonathan Rausch, writer and podcast host Yascha Mounk, and Moni Guzman of Braver Angels. In this episode Richard and Jim get personal and a bit emotional about where they've changed their minds and personally learned from each other. Please listen!Follow How Do We Fix It? on Facebook and Twitter X. Jim is a senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute. Follow him here on Twitter. He writes for City Journal and Commentary. Richard co-hosts "Let's Find Common Ground" podcast with Ashley Milne-Tyte. He's on Facebook and his Twitter handle is daviesnow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Molecular biologist Alina Chan's NYT opinion piece supporting the COVID19 lab origin theory as Anthony Fauci's US congressional hearing in the case comes to an end has once again raised questions about China's Wuhan Lab. In Episode 1470 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses the key takeaways, implications, and why China needs to break its silence.----more----Watch Cut The Clutter episode no 748 here: https://youtu.be/OlO8sKRynBY ----more----Watch Off The Cuff with Nicholas Wade's here: https://youtu.be/2RqWoiokVHM----more----https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/politics/fauci-testimony-house-hearing-covid-19/index.html----more----https://osp.od.nih.gov/policies/national-science-advisory-board-for-biosecurity-nsabb/gain-of-function-research/----more----https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html----more----https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/covid-origins-lab-market.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare----more----https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/briefing/two-covid-theories.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare----more----https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavirus-research-at-chinese-lab/

01:00 Three anecdotes 07:00 Unlike the fall of 2000, Republican legal elites are lined up behind Trump 13:20 Steve Sailer says this is his best interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fitLTIwao3Y 16:20 Women questioning their sexuality, https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/am-i-ok-review-dakota-johnson-tig-notaro-max-7ec20ba2?mod=arts-culture_lead_pos2 18:30 Joe Biden's border crackdown 29:00 Paul Gottfried talks to Joseph Cotto about the Trump conviction, https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1rmGPMgEnydJN 31:00 The Atlantic: Pat McAfee and the Threat to Sports Journalism, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/pat-mcafee-threat-sports-journalism/678480/ 33:45 Why are the experts arguing for natural origins of Covid? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html 1:05:45 Alina Chan on the lab leak, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC-eQmzZnqM 1:28:00 Elliott Blatt joins to discuss the lab leak 1:46:40 Republicans have lined up behind Trump regarding his felony convictions

Voor Skepter schreef wetenschapsjournalist Stan van Pelt een uitgebreid stuk over de oorsprong van het coronavirus. Kwam corona uit de natuur of uit het lab? Die vraagt ligt vier jaar na dato nog altijd op tafel. Voor beide theorieën zijn allerlei aanwijzingen, maar insinuaties en belangen in beide kampen maken een evenwichtige analyse lastig.In deze podcast special gaan Richard Engelfriet en Pepijn van Erp met Stan hierover in gesprek.Leesvoer bij deze aflevering:Alison Young. Pandora's Gamble, Lab Leaks, Pandemics and a World at Risk. (2023)Alina Chan & Matt Ridley. Viral, The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. (2021)David Quammen. Buiten Adem. (2022)Een interessante bespreking is ook te lezen op de site van Frank Visser (die eerder in Skepter schreef over virusontkenners)Philipp Markolin. Treacherous Ancestry (2024)Proximal OriginAndersen, K.G., Rambaut, A., Lipkin, W.I. et al. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Nat Med 26, 450–452 (2020).En natuurlijk:Stan van Pelt. Nog altijd rookgordijnen bij oorsprong coronavirus. Skepter 37.2 (2024) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Sam Harris is the subject today and a man who needs no introduction. Although he's come up and he's come on, we've never actually (technically) decoded him. There is no Gurometer score! A glaring omission and one that needs correcting. It would have been easy for us to cherry-pick Sam being extremely good on conspiracy theories, or extremely controversial on politics, but we felt that neither would be fair. So we opted for a general and broad-ranging recent interview he did with Chris Williamson. Love him or loathe him, it's a representative piece of Sam Harris content, and therefore good material for us.Sam talks about leaving Twitter, and how transformative that was for his life, then gets into his favourite topic: Buddhism, consciousness, and living in the moment. That's the kind of spiritual kumbaya topics that Sam reports causing him little pain online but Chris and Matt- the soulless physicalists and p-zombies that they are- seek to destroy even that refuge. On the other hand, they find themselves determined by the very forces of the universe to nod their meat puppet heads in furious agreement as Sam discusses the problems with free speech absolutism and reactionary conspiracism. That's just a taste of what's to come in this extra-ordinarily long episode to finish off the year. What's the DTG take? You'll have to listen to find out all the details, but we do think there is some selective interpretation of religions at hand and some gut reactions to wokeness that leads to some significant blindspots. So is Sam Harris an enlightened genius, a neo-conservative warmonger, a manipulative secular guru? Or is he, in the immortal words of Gag Halfrunt, Zaphod Beeblebrox's head specialist, "just zis guy, you know?".Sam was DTG's white whale of 2023, but we'll let you be the judge as to whether or not we harpooned him, or whether he's swimming off contentedly, unscathed, into the open ocean.LinksSam Harris - Take Back Control Of Your Mind (4K) | Modern Wisdom 661DTG Special Episode: Sam Harris & Meditation is all you needDTG Special: Interview with Sam Harris on Gurus, Tribalism & the Culture WarDTG Special Episode: Interview with Evan Thompson on Buddhist ExceptionalismDTG Interview with Worobey, Andersen & Holmes: The Lab LeakMaking Sense 311: Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab? A Conversation with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host and Wellness Force Media CEO, Josh Trent, shares why CV!9 is the biggest crime of the century and what we can collectively heal. Limited Edition: Gold Pumpkin Spice from Organifi Save 20% with code "WELLNESSFORCE" on everyone's favorite Fall treat is here! Pumpkin Spice is more than just a taste phenomenon: it's a portal directly into the nostalgia of fall. With Gold Pumpkin Spice, that taste can also help promote relaxation and restful sleep, nourish the body, and support nightly recovery from a hard day's work.  Click HERE to order your Organifi today including the Green, Red, and traditional Gold! Are You Stressed Out Lately? Take a deep breath with the M21™ wellness guide: a simple yet powerful 21 minute morning system that melts stress and gives you more energy through 6 science-backed practices and breathwork. Click HERE to download for free. Experience Red Light Therapy at HomeSave 10% on your SaunaSpace order with the code "JOSH10" Unlike the traditional methods, near-infrared light works with your body's biology to create radiant heat from the inside out. By using near-infrared's shorter wavelengths in a way that mimics natural sunlight, the light penetrates deeply to raise your core temperature faster. *Review The Wellness + Wisdom Podcast & WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group   In this solocast, you will learn: How Josh feels about the CV!9 theater. Why he uses the acronym CV!9. What happens to future generations if we spiritually bypass the pandemic. The power of Vanguard and BlackRock capital firms. Why there is a limit to success. How the government is lying to us. Why too much structure allows for no flow and too much power given to few people leads to corruption. Why money is behind the CV!9 theater according to Josh. What mainstream media is not sharing about the Chinese communist party. Why the Wuhan lab hasn't released any files about the virus they were working on at the time of the outbreak. Why this episode will most likely be flagged as controversial to “keep you safe” and how is that hidden censorship. How media is controlled and used as a political tool to create division. Freedom of the press and speech are crucial to becoming free. What it means that we are all in need of an individual and collective wake-up call. How those in power are taking away our sovereignty and individuality by keeping us “safe.” The collective dream of separation. Why being at cause doesn't mean that we are at fault. Tips on how to bulletproof the mind to escape mind control. Why you should place your phone in “do not disturb” mode. The importance of blocking the sources that create fear, anger, or anxiety within us. How taking care of your body makes your mind bulletproof. Breathwork and meditation: Physical and mental strengthening. BREATHE: Breath & Wellness Program Get 33% off of the BREATHE: Breath & Wellness Program with the code PODCAST33   Boost your immunity and calm your mind with freedom from chronic stress in the modern world. A 21 day guided breath and wellness program using ancient wisdom to boost your immunity, calm your mind, and give you freedom from chronic stress in the modern world. Combining special breathwork infused with safe vape cannabidiol, BREATHE gives you everything you need to let go of old weight, de-stress, and build immunity so you can live your best life. In this special (limited time) offer, you will receive: – Lifetime access to BREATHE – Free upgrades to all future training modules – Free additional training modules – Special VIP coupons for safe vape, essential oils, CBD, nootropics and more – Private WF group access Listen To Episode 584 As Josh Trent Uncovers [00:00] CV!9 THEATER: WHO IS REALLY BEHIND IT? In today's solo cast, we are exploring the crime of the century how the lockdown and CV!9 theater broke billions of minds, and how we can prevent this from happening as an individual and a collective in 2023 and beyond. Look, it is no surprise that you made it here to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast. Maybe you saw the title and you clicked it maybe you already feel the way that I feel and that we feel in this community and that is that we have been robbed and sometimes the most loving thing we can do is to be at war. By the end of this solo cast, I will promise you that you'll take away the following five big rocks that you can use to protect yourself and your family and your mind, most importantly, from any future attacks on your ancient brain specifically the amygdala. We'll discuss some of the most cutting-edge and recent developments in the origin of the CV!9. Why Matt Ridley, a British writer, journalist, and public speaker, has written a book about CV!9 and has collectively sold over a million copies that have been translated into 31 languages. The framing of the plandemic as a political distraction. How fear-based headlines grab hold of your neural chemistry, and what to do about it. The real reason for spiritual and consciousness maturation that we are destined to learn from this theatre nonsense in early 2020. What tools I use when I'm overwhelmed and stressed. How to bulletproof your mind against amygdala hijacking.   [02:10] COMMUNISM + MIND CONTROL TACTICS Now look, I know it's a touchy subject for media, and probably many are exhausted with this conversation about the pandemic and lockdowns and masks and jabs and medical freedom and Gestapo mind control from the media and the government but this is something that we need to and we must and we get to explore. Otherwise, our children and our children's children will pay the price. Somewhere in your subconscious mind, there's probably already a question why should I listen to josh for the next 10 minutes? Well, I will tell you, because I've spent the past two years just like you, experiencing the nuclear fallout from an economic, mental health, the community split by the acts of what I believe is communism and mind control tactics by the most elite of the elite, who essentially run the world. I'm talking about the powers that be behind closed doors at Vanguard and BlackRock capital. I'm talking about $20 trillion that is managed by Vanguard and BlackRock and probably a lot more that just isn't showing publicly. All you have to do, and don't worry you won't go down the rabbit hole today and there's no tinfoil hat needed, is make the connections between the two largest capital firms in the entire planet, literally in the history of humanity, this much wealth has never been held by such few people. Now, the free market capitalist inside of you and inside of me is celebrating when people succeed, but there is a limit to the succession of financial gain when it comes to creating scarcity and fear, and pain for others. What do I mean by this? Let's dig in. All of the money in the world can be funneled into and out of the largest capital firms like Vanguard, and BlackRock, traced to, and from the federal reserve, which is a private company that is for profit which most people get wrong, and of course, traced to the United States federal government, and then that is where all the money supposedly gets applied to state and local city governments. But you and I both know if you've ever gone to get a driver's license or registration or a permit that the existential energy and every single office whether at a local city or federal level has a flavor doesn't it? It has a flavor of lies and frustration, like an existential pressure that we all can feel whenever we step foot into a government or authority organization. Now the father in me knows that order and structure, and a framework for chaos, which is life is necessary. But you and I also both know that too much structure allows for no flow and no energy to move from point a to point B. In other words, too much control given to too few people will ultimately yield corruption and that is exactly what we are seeing with the financial system. Make sure that you listen to the episode with Robert Breedlove, where he does an incredible job, breaking down the financial system, and the rise of cryptocurrency it is a master class on financial wellness. It's very important for you to listen to this episode.   [05:40] WHY THE TRUTH IS BEING HIDDEN FROM US Now back to the crime of the century. The reason we had to talk about money before that is because money created this CV!9 theater. Period and stop. If you look at the YouTube video interview with Jordan Peterson and Matt Ridley, the author of Viral: The Search For The Origin Of CV!9, titled The Origin Of CV!9, you will learn from the most accurate and observational research of the data that mainstream media is not sharing that there is a smoking gun when it comes to the Chinese communist party and their involvement in the leaking out of this virus that caused so much death and destruction and mind control. And emails now exposed the head of the NIH, the National Institute of Health is quoted: “We can't damage international harmony, we mustn't dampen the reputation of Chinese science.” And this, my friend, is the smoking gun, the Wuhan CV!9 research lab in China. Still to this day, has not released their files about what viruses they were working on at the time of the leak and the outbreak. When the Chinese lab was confronted by the United States government to release their records, they were told no. If this isn't the biggest smoking gun, that should allow natural sacred anger and sacred rage to come forth from you and I and us as a collective, then nothing ever will. What we have gone through over the past 2 and a half years is a vile and disgusting cover-up, to which there may never be forgiveness and tell the truth is exposed. Matt really continues to share with us through his research that conversations were controlled by the communist party in China here in America and censorship that was funded by. The CCP has been rolling out ever since the leak. Now I'm sure this episode is going to get flagged whenever you mention CCP or China or BlackRock or any of the terms I'm talking about automatically the technocrat agencies will flag this episode as a controversy or that you don't have the responsibility in your own mind to protect yourself against me. So they are going to place a huge blue or green or black label on this continent where you're listening or watching it to “keep you safe” and isn't that so disgusting that these technocrat agencies don't believe in you, they don't believe in your own agency and filter of information so they slap warnings on contact like this to “keep you safe “which is essentially hidden censorship. It should not surprise you by now, but there is a silver lining in this, which I will get to you in a moment.   [09:23] CV!9: A POLITICAL DISTRACTION? Essentially, what has been happening is that all media has been controlled and the entire Plandemic was used as a political distraction tool to divide people into pro-mask or anti-mask, pro job or anti-jab pro BLM or anti-BLM and it's all a fucking joke and a fucking lie and you and I both know it. This is divisional language 101. If you look at military tactics of war, the very first thing you do is that you put sides against each other then you confuse them, then you take away their resources, then you control the world and all of its people. Is it so hard to believe that at the highest level your attention is being controlled which will lead to the choices that disempower you and disenfranchise you from your very own freedom? This is why billions of minds were broken because the truth will set us free but in order to have freedom we must have freedom of press and freedom of speech which you and I both know absolutely was under siege over the past 2 and a half years and even more aggressively so now, which is why we're here on this podcast to get the mental physical, emotional, spiritual and financial truth about how we can support our wellness. And wellness starts in the body and in the mind. Head over to the show notes page JoshTrent.com/501 if you want to get all the links and resources and dive much deeper with me into this topic let's move on because I promised you we would get into five core aspects that you can use to bulletproof your mind about anything similar that may happen in the future so let's continue.   [10:55] THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION So why is this all happening? Let's take a deep breath. I believe this is happening because we are in need of a collective and an individual wake-up call. The quote by Aristotle that Alan Watts has been very famous for is that nature abhors a vacuum. Nature hates a vacuum. Well, the vacuum that is being pulled on us by the media, and by those at the highest levels of power is sucking away our sovereignty and our individuality through the lens of “it's for your safety. The real reason for this pandemic and of this insanity is that we have to crack open so that light can pour out of us and into us. We are living as Paul Levy my guest on episode 503 next week will share in a collective dream. We will go much deeper into this topic next week, which I know you would love. The collective dream is that we are separate. We believe this dream of illusion that there is such a difference between the hearts in our chests, in the air that we breathe and the emotions that we all feel. We are taught that we are separate, but we are not. We are absolutely not separate. We never have been, and we never will be. So in order to come to the truth, we have to experience the vacuum the contrast, the darkness, the opposite of love. I don't know why God made it this way my friend, it makes me sad at times and it's definitely a spiritual maturation process for me to accept, but it is what it is and so what do we do about it now? You've heard me say many times since interviewing my friend and mentor Scott Jackson that we are at cause, but being at cause does not always mean that we are at fault. But it is with our compliance and our talking detail between her legs and wearing the masks and getting the jobs and following orders and hoping it will all go away… This is what perpetuates the darkness and perpetuates the attacks on the mind.   [13:08] STEPS TO BULLETPROOF YOUR MIND So let's talk about how to bulletproof the mind so you can be free of this control, tactic by the media and the highest elite power. The very first thing you must do is to place your phone on “do not disturb.” I know it's a very simple thing, but place your phone on do not disturb, next have specific times that you check social media. Once, twice, maybe three times a day, or just have specific days that you check social media. Next, and this is very very important, whenever you see something on your Instagram Facebook, social media feeds, or news and it makes you feel fear and you'll know you're feeling fear because your prefrontal cortex will shut down and you'll start feeling anger or sadness or rage, immediately unfollow, block, and hide the source that showed you the main control message. I'm talking about CNB, CMS, MBC, Fox, CBC, BCBBB, whatever the acronyms are it doesn't even matter. Any major news outlet – immediately unfollow it. There are only five news outlets globally, and they hide behind subsidiaries. And if you don't believe me just do a quick Google search or search on YouTube for the video titled “This Is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy” and you'll see what I mean. It's also in the show notes at JoshTrent.com/501.   [14:40] TAKING CARE OF YOUR BODY TO STRENGTHEN YOUR MIND Next, if you want to bulletproof your mind, you have to care and love for your body. Now look you don't need to buy anything for this but if you have income that you're spending on alcohol, drugs or partying, or anything else that is taking you away from your physical sovereignty I want you to listen really really closely here. JoshTrent.com/Store it's really serious and meaningful to me. I've worked very hard to get the deepest discounts possible to get you all the tools that will fuel and support your physical mental emotional, spiritual and financial health so you can be well and when you're well you're less controllable when you're healthy, you're less controllable. There's two specific products I want you to use. The first one is the Upbeat from Nootopia, and the second one is the Kanna or the MesemBright from LiftMode. Both of these are built to support your new chemistry and make your mind and your nervous system strong. When you combine that with your discipline of putting your phone on “do not disturb” and hiding the fear-based news, you were going to be rock-solid, my friend that is my promise. Another way that you can bulletproof yourself is through breathwork and meditation. As you know, I absolutely love breathwork. It is a core part of my life and you can join me in a three-week program titled Breathe: Breath & Wellness. The new year is coming. It's a perfect time for you to join me in the program you can go to breathwork.io and use the code “PODCAST25” to get 25% off the Breathe: Breath & Wellness program in that program will talk about the many layers you can put into place right away to make you bulletproof physically and mentally from this mind control from the media by just using your breath in the most intelligent way. That's breathwork.io. Use the code “PODCAST25” to support and nourish yourself through your breath. I really like the MitoZen Nasal Spray. It has got oxytocin and Hape. It's very calming. I use it in the evenings to connect with my partner or if I'm feeling stressed. Here's the key if you feel like you're out of your body, you most likely are, and when you're out of your body, your prefrontal cortex is shut down. So when you spray the oxytocin and the Hape into your sinuses, you come back into your body. The prefrontal cortex starts to come back online and you're actually yourself again you can go to JoshTrent.com/MitoZen and use the code “WELLNESSFORCE” to get 15% off the oxytocin and Hape Zen nasal spray. Now look again, you don't have to buy any of these things. I just love them I use them myself and thousands of people in our Wellness + Wisdom Community have purchased them and use them as well so I think they will really really help you.   [17:55] SPARKING MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS And I trust that this podcast lit a fire inside of your heart to motivate you to dig deeper in 2023 and have this conversation at the holiday table or with a friend or with a family member who just simply does not know. Maybe they're unconsciously incompetent about it, in other words, they don't even know they don't know this can be your special moment to connect with a friend or a family member that you haven't connected with for a long time and make it a meaningful conversation. Please, share this podcast with someone who literally does not know that they don't know share this crime of the century how this CV!9 theater broke billions of minds and how we can heal collectively. 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On this episode, we talk with Alina Chan, postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and co-author with Matt Ridley of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2 could have plausibly jumped into humans in Wuhan via one of two paths. The first is zoonotic transfer from wild bats to humans, possibly via an intermediate animal host. The second is some kind of lab accident: researchers working on a SARS-CoV-2-like virus accidentally became infected with it and then transmitted it to others in Wuhan. Although early discussions among virologists reached the consensus that the origin was almost surely zoonotic, more recent discussions have started to take the lab-leak theory seriously. Unfortunately, we still lack conclusive evidence in support of either hypothesis. And, as public leaders have co-opted the investigation for nonscientific reasons, the subject of COVID's origin has become practically taboo. Alina's approach is to “follow the data,” leaving no stone unturned, and we believe that it is our responsibility as scientists to do the same. We talk to Alina about her book, as well as the many new things that have been revealed about COVID's origins since its 2021 publication. Towards the end of the chat, we discuss the implications of what we've learned about SARS-CoV-2 for how we should prepare for and deal with future pandemics. We hope that this episode inspires you to seek the best possible explanation of COVID origins. Please write to info@bigbiology.org and tell us what you think, and share with friends and family.  Cover art: Keating Shahmehri

In the early days of the pandemic a lot of attention was paid to the fact that the Chinese city of Wuhan, from which the virus emerged, contained a biological research laboratory that had been experimenting with coronaviruses.But this was met by political and scientific reassurance that the virus was more likely the result of an evolutionary leap and had spread via a food market. Those who persisted with the laboratory hypothesis were criticised for being anti-Chinese or 'conspiracy theorists' and their views were largely excluded from mainstream media reporting and ‘flagged' as outliers on social media sites.The fact that President Trump, who had been pushing strange ‘cures' for Covid, also entertained the lab-leak theory, made many of his opponents feel it was probably incorrect. This week's guest, journalist Matt Ridley wasn't so sure, and he set about with a co-author, molecular biologist, Alina Chan, to investigate. Their 2021 book ‘Viral' laid out the case for and against the lab leak theory in great detail.Meanwhile the administration of President Biden started to review the evidence, as a series of scientific and congressional inquiries put ‘lab escape' back on the mainstream news agenda. Today more and more experts are entertaining it.So what's the real evidence - and could it be that political bias may have stopped us looking dispassionately at the cause of greatest public health emergency of the century?You can buy Matt Ridley's book - and thousands more - from the Scandal Mongers own online bookstore - part of a profit-sharing collaboration between podcasters and independent book stories. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/viral-the-search-for-the-origin-of-covid-19-alina-chan/6158390?aid=12054&ean=9780008487492Andrew Lownie.twitter.com/andrewlowniePhil Craig.twitter.com/philmcraigYou can also get in touch with the shows hosts via...team@podcastworld.org (place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please)This show is part of the PodcastWorld.org network. For your own show please get in contact via the email address above.Production byTheo XKerem Isik Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit public.substack.comIf you're a paid subscriber and are not getting our full podcast episodes on your podcast player, go to https://public.substack.com/account and follow the instructions to set up a private feed.On February 17, 2020, The New York Times and the Washington Post suggested that the lab leak hypothesis was a “fringe theory” that had been “debunked.” In April of 2020, MSNBC's Nicole Wallace called the lab leak hypothesis “one of Trumpworld's most favorite conspiracy theories.” A few days later, Joy Reid said it was “debunked bunkum.” Some journalists and scientists even claimed that the hypothesis was xenophobic and “racist.”As the mainstream press largely failed to ask questions about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 (with some notable exceptions), the crucial task of investigating the virus' origins fell to independent researchers, many of whom worked tirelessly to examine the evidence. Two of those researchers are Alina Chan, a postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Matt Ridley, a British biologist and science writer. In their book Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, they detail the history of coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as well as the cover-up that followed the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. In our conversation with them, Chan and Ridley explained the professional risks they took to pursue this line of inquiry. “For Alina, this took huge courage,” Ridley said. “She's at the start of a brilliant scientific career at a brilliant institution, and she had to be really tough. It's a remarkable story of human courage.”As the lab leak theory becomes more widely discussed and accepted, much of Chan and Ridley's work has been vindicated. In February 2023, FBI Director Chris Wray told Fox News, “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident.” The Energy Department released a low-confidence report with a similar conclusion, and just last week, the head of China's CDC said that a lab leak should not be ruled out. So how did the media and the scientific community get the COVID origins debate so wrong?

L'origine du COVID-19 est une question essentielle. Cependant la possibilité d'y répondre décroit avec le temps et avec l'amenuisement des preuves. Dans cet épisode, on passe en revue, unes par unes, les preuves constituant le faisceau d'indices pointant vers l'hypothèse de la fuite de laboratoire.

Das Thema der heutigen Episiode ist: »Scheitern an komplexen Problemen? Wissenschaft, Sprache und Gesellschaft« Covid, Klimawandel, Energiewende oder geopolitische Krisen sind komplexe Herausforderungen.  Herausforderungen, in denen sich verschiedene wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse mit politischen und gesellschaftlichen Interessen überschneiden. Unterschiedliche Meinungen, und damit Konflikt ist geradezu eine natürliche Folge solcher Probleme. Und immer öfter scheinen wir an diesen Herausforderungen zu scheitern, und nicht nur das: wir Polarisieren dabei zunehmend unsere Gesellschaft, drohen liberale und demokratische Werte zu gefährden und beschädigen Wissenschaft und Politik auf dem Weg. So erleben wir auch eine Renaissance von Paternalismus und Autoritarismus — und dies nicht unbedingt von der politischen Seite, von der es von vielen erwartet wurde. Wollen wir die Entscheidung über wesentliche gesellschaftliche Entscheidungen wenigen Auserwählten überlassen oder doch eine breite und informierte gesellschaftlichen Legitimierung anstreben? Stecken wir fest? Was geschieht, gerade und welche Rolle spielt Sprache und Diskurs? Diese Folge jongliert mit einer Reihe von politisch und gesellschaftlich heißen Themen und gerade darum freue ich mich sehr, dieses Gespräch mit Jan David Zimmermann führen zu können. Jan ist Autor, Journalist und Wissenschaftsforscher, hat auch gerade ein neues und äußerst empfehlenswertes Buch herausgebracht. Ich möchte nochmals betonen, daß wir Covid, Klimawandel  und andere Krisen ansprechen, aber es geht in keinem dieser Fälle darum, konkrete sachliche Fragen der Krisen zu diskutieren oder zu beurteilen.  Vielmehr interessiert uns eine Meta-Frage: wie diskutieren wir aktuell und wie sollten wir derartig schwierige und komplexe Fragestellungen in der Gesellschaft diskutieren, wo schwerwiegende und langfristig wirksame Entscheidungen unserer Ansicht nach demokratisch legitimiert sein müssen. Wir beziehen keine sachliche Position zu Covid- oder Klimawandel - Fragen, sondern diskutieren auf der Meta-Ebene, wie wir gesellschaftlich und wissenschaftlich mit diesen Themen umgehen, beziehungsweise umgegangen sind, und welche zum Teil erheblichen Fehler aus unserer Sicht hier gemacht wurden. Wie funktionieren — oder funktionieren eben nicht — wesentliche gesellschaftliche Diskurse »Wissenschaft ist eine tolle Sache um die materielle Welt zu verstehen, aber es dauert Zeit. Es bedarf Debatten und Diskussionen. Das Problem ist dabei nicht so sehr Wissenschaft: sondern wir haben einige hochrangige Bürokraten in die Position eines Papsts erhoben«, Jay Bhattacharya »Wenn Kritiker ihre Kugeln auf Tony Fauci abfeuern, dann erkenne die Menschen, da ist eine Person. So ist es einfach zu kritisieren, aber sie kritisieren tatsächlich Wissenschaft. Denn ich repräsentiere Wissenschaft.«, Dr. Anthony Fauci Ist Fauci Wissenschaft? Wer repräsentiert Wissenschaft? Was ist Wissenschaft, vor allem auch hinsichtlich der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Wirkung? Sollten wir Wissenschaft nicht als ständigen Diskurs und Selbstreflexion auch mit einer wesentlichen historischen Dimension begreifen und behandeln? Wissenschaft nach Bourdieu als soziales System sehen? "Wenn es darum geht, Menschenleben zu retten, mache ich keine Kompromisse.", Wolfgang Mückstein  und »Aber ich sage Ihnen auch ganz offen, dass der Maßstab nicht das ist, was wir glauben, was wir jetzt machen wollen, sondern der Maßstab ist, was uns die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler zu dem Thema sagen.«, Angela Merkel (2020) Was bedeutet das? Wer entscheidet was der Maßstab ist. Welcher Wissenschafter ist überhaupt in der Lage eine relevante Aussage in einer komplexen Systemlage zu geben? Haben wir — besonders deutlich in der Covid-Krise —Entkontextualisierung und Enthhistorisierung sowie eine deutliche Verengung von Diskurs erlebt? Mit welchen Folgen? Der Mediziner Martin Sprenger spricht von einem virologischen Tunnelblick. Aber das Problem ist nicht alleine auf den vermeintlichen Extremfall Covid begrenzt. In Deutschland wurde etwa eine Meldestelle für ideologische Abweichung eingerichtet. Dies könnte man als deutliches Beispiel für den Versuch einer autoritären Verengung des Diskurses und Zensur, sehen. Aber auch Framing ist ein wichtiges Mittel der Verzerrung medialer Diskurse Beispiel Ivermectin — haben Joe Rogan und zahlreiche andere Prominente »Pferdewurmmittel« genommen — oder ist das ein Framing um den Diskurs zu vermeiden und sie lächerlich zu machen? Was ist vom Begriff der »Verschwörungstheorie« zu halten? Natürlich gibt es solche, aber wurde der Begriff möglicherweise inflationär, gar als Kampfbegriff verwendet? In zahlreichen Medienkommentaren erleben wir einen stärker werdenden Paternalismus. Wir wissen, was gut für euch ist — Narrative treiben die Berichterstattung und teilen die Bevölkerung sowie die Ansichten in »Gut« und »Böse« ein. Vielen scheint es schwer zu fallen zu sehen, dass auch gegensätzlich scheinende Dinge gleichzeitig zutreffen können: Pfizer hat sich einerseits äußerst fragwürdiger Praktiken bedient und wurde dafür in den USA zur höchsten Strafe verurteilt, die das Justizministerium je verhängt hat und kann gleichzeitig auch lebenswichtige Pharmazeutika produzieren. Kritisches Hinterfragen von Großunternehmen wie Pfizer ist dringen notwendig, ohne gleich das Kind mit dem Bad ausschütten zu müssen. Auch die Frage, ob Forschung einen immer stärker ideologischen Einschlag hat, im besonderen bei politisch wesentlichen Fragestellungen, darf kein Tabuthema sein. Zu viel hängt von den Ergebnissen der Forschung ab, und zahlreiche Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die Qualität der Forschung in verschiedener Disziplinen sehr schlecht ist. Wissenschafter selbst sind wie alle Menschen vielschichtig. Sie können in einer Sache recht und in anderen völlig unrecht haben. Billiges canceln (siehe z.B. David Hume) ist infantil und nicht zielführend. Ein genauer Blick immer notwendig und nicht nur ein blinder Fokus auf das Jetzt und das Ich und die eigene Meinung. Auf die Pandemie gemünzt hat Johannes Lehmann vom »Bann der pandemischen Gegenwart« gesprochen. Zahlreiche Paradoxien tauchen auf und wir diskutieren einige beispielhaft. Aber auch die Wirkmacht der Krise als politisches Mittel wird Thema; Giorgio Agampen spricht vom Ausnahmezustand als politischem Instrument beziehungsweise Herrschaftsmittel, Naomi Klein hat schon vor vielen Jahren vor einer »Schock Doktrin« gewarnt. Wir erleben das regelmäßig bei heutigen Aktivisten: Aufgrund der Krise X gibt es angeblich gar keine Zeit mehr für Widerspruch, für Diskurs! Demokratie ist ein Hindernis und wir sollten alleine den Aktivisten folgen. Ist das eine gute Idee?  »Die Sprache der Öffentlichkeit ist eskaliert und gleichzeitig hat sich der Diskurs verengt.« Wir nennen Beispiele für diese Eskalation und Radikalisierung in ehemals linksliberalen Medien wie etwa dem Standard oder dem Falter in Österreich, der Zeit in Deutschland. »Ich wünsche mir einen totalen und vernichtenden Sieg für die Ukraine«, Eva Illousz, die Zeit klingt bedrückend ähnlich zu »Glaubt ihr mit dem Führer und mit uns an den endgültigen, totalen Sieg der deutschen Waffen?«, Joseph Goebbels, Sportpalast Rede (1943) Und dies sind keine Einzelfälle. Sarah Bosetti etwa entgleist und vergleicht Menschen mit einem Blinddarm der entfernt werden kann. Wie hängt das alles mit der immer stärker werdenden Identitätspolitik zusammen? Definiert Identität Freibrief von Sprache und Handlung? Sind etablierte Prinzipien eines Rechtsstaat nichts mehr wert, wenn ich nur die richtige Identität behaupte? Wir haben erheblichenSchaden an wesentlichen gesellschaftlichen Strukturen angerichtet, und dies gepaart mit einem Vertrauensverlust. Waren dies unvermeidbare Fehler oder eher Ungeschicklichkeit und Überheblichkeit von Eliten, die ihre eigenen Fähigkeiten bei weitem überschätzt haben. Ist Paternalismus und moralische Überhöhung in Ordnung um die Bevölkerung nicht zu verwirren, oder zerstört das den Zusammenhalt in einer modernen Gesllschaft? “The trust we have in each other and in our institutions is a measure of social health around the world.”, Todd Rose Die Kompetenz heutiger (wissenschaftlicher) Eliten waren ebenfalls in früheren Episoden ein Thema. So gibt eine Asymmetrie des Vertrauens (in Medien und Menschen): nicht der Durchschnitt zählt, sondern der Ausreißer, der »Betrug«.  »Komplexe Themen brauchen komplexe Diskussionen« Entgegen der heutigen Schlagwort-Diversität am Oberflächlichen orientiert, gibt es tatsächlich in Institutionen und an Unis immer weniger relevante Diversität, das heißt intellektuelle Diversität — Unterschiede in Meinung und Weltanschauung. Bei komplexen Fragestellungen können einzelne Personen nie »die Wahrheit« finden. Das bedeutet, der Diskurs muss im Zentrum stehen. Aber wie können wir konstruktiven Diskurs von Ablenkung durch Esoterik und Pseudowissenschaft unterscheiden? Brauchen wir eine zweite Aufklärung, und wie könnte diese Aussehen? Umsetzung komplexer Maßnahmen erfordert Vertrauen und Legitimation durch große Teile der Bevölkerung. Paternalistisch und autoritär verordnete Ideen führen spätestens mittelfristig zu starken Gegenreaktionen, die das möglicherweise richtige Ziel erst recht beschädigen. Wie damit umgehen? Referenzen Andere Episoden Episode 11: Ethik, oder: Warum wir Wissenschaft nicht den Wissenschaftern überlassen sollten! Episode 13: (Pseudo)wissenschaft? Welcher Aussage können wir trauen? Teil 1 Episode 14: (Pseudo)wissenschaft? Welcher Aussage können wir trauen? Teil 2 Episode 25: Entscheiden unter Unsicherheit Episode 29: Fakten oder Geschichten? Wie gestalten wir die Zukunft? Episode 32: Überleben in der Datenflut – oder: warum das Buch wichtiger ist als je zuvor Episode 38: Eliten, ein Gespräch mit Prof. Michael Hartmann Episode 39: Follow the Science? Episode 47: Große Worte Episode 57: Konservativ UND Progressiv Episode 67: Wissenschaft, Hype und Realität — ein Gespräch mit Stephan Schleim Jan David Zimmermann Homepage Facebook: Jan D. Zimmermann Instagram:  j._zimmermann Buch: Lethe. Vom Vergessen des Totalitären (Webseite, Amazon) Fachliche Referenzen Interview mit Rossana Segretto, Tiroler Tageszeitung (2021) Drosten und Fauci: Das Versagen von Wissenschaft und Ethik, Cicero (2023) Peter Daszak, Christian Drosten et al, Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19, The Lancet (March 2020) Tony Fauci: Fox News 1 Fox News 2 CBN News Jacqueline Howard, Dr. Anthony Fauci says publicly released email about lab leak is being misconstrued, CNN (2021) Fauci representing science: Megyn Kelly (2022) Former CDC Director Redfield at hearing Megan K. Stack, Dr. Fauci Could Have Said a Lot More, New York Times Opinion (2023) Wiesendanger-Studie, Uni Hamburg (2021) Jan David Zimmermann, Frankensteins Erbe, Wissenschaft zwischen Gut und Böse, Cicero (2022) Todd Rose, Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions, Hachette (2023) Wolfgang Mückstein Zitat, Kleine Zeitung (2021) Angela Merkel, Pressekonferenz (2020) Jay Bhattacharya im Triggernometry Podcast (2023) Meldestelle Antifeminismus (Deutschland): Nele Pollatschek, Vielleicht sind wir kollektiv ein bisschen drüber, Süddeutsche Zeitung (2023)  Der totale Sieg Eva Illousz, die Zeit 16.2.2023 (Print); 18.2.2023 (online) Joseph Goebbels, Sportpalastrede (Wikipedia) Jan David Zimmermann über den Illousz Kommentar: Der Wunsch nach dem totalen Sieg, Stichpunkt (2023) Christoph Zielinski,  Warum diese Angriffe auf die Wissenschaft? Der Standard (2023) Sarah Bosetti »Blinddarm« Tweet (2021) Sweden, Covid and 'excess deaths': a look at the data, Spectator (2023) John Tierney, COVID-19, Lessons we should have learned (2022) Great Barrington Declaration Bret Stephens, The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?, NYT (2023), und der Cochrane Bericht Long Covid, Masks, Equipoise, RCTs, Lockdown & More, ID Ethicist Lab Leak Hypothesis: Matt Ridley, Alina Chan, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, Fourth Estate (2021) Matt Ridley, Alina Chan im Gespräch mit Sam Harris: Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab? (2023) Klimawandel Roger Pielke Jr., What the media won't tell you about . . . hurricanes Roger Pielke Jr., What the media won't tell you about . . . Drought in Western and Central Europe Paul S. Kench et al, Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations, Nature (2018) Thomas Stocker (Vorsitzender des fünften UN-Klimareports) über Kipppunkte und Klima-Berichterstattung: "Eigentlich brauchen wir die Drohkulisse der Kipppunkte nicht", Die Zeit (2022) Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History — Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing (2009)  ORF Artikel über »geringe psychische Folgen der Pandemie« (2023)  Pierre Bourdieu, Homo Academicus, Suhrkamp (1992) Johannes F. Lehmann, Aus dem pandemischen Jetzt (2022) CNN Business, FDA on Ivermectin “You are not a horse, you are not a cow” (2021) Joe Rogan und Sanjay Gupta über CNN / Ivermectin Kenan Malik, David Hume was a complex man. Erasing his name is too simplistic a gesture, The Guardian (2020) Giorgio Agampen, An welchem Punkt stehen wir?: Die Epidemie als Politik, Turia + Kant (2021) Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, Penguin (2008)

Alina Chan is a molecular biologist, scientific advisor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. In this episode, Chan says that more than three years after the start of the pandemic, there still has been “no credible investigation” of the origins of Covid, the continuing resistance among some scientists for a full investigation, the key role that Twitter has played in the investigation, and her views on the wet market,  lockdowns, masks, and Anthony Fauci, and why she's still pushing for a full investigation. (Recorded April 3, 2023.)

The question of the SARS-CoV-2 origin: whether it was a zoonotic spillover from a wet market, or an engineered virus that escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is seemingly a debate that will never go away. Most interestingly, while scientists with specific domain expertise seem to be building a consensus towards the former, public opinion appears to be trending towards the latter. This delta between expert and popular opinion has been helped along by the frothy discourse in mainstream and social media, with most figures that we cover in this podcast dead-set certain that it came from a lab. Most recently, Sam Harris hosted on his Making Sense podcast the molecular biologist Alina Chan and. science writer Matt Ridley, spokespersons for the lab leak case, and authors of "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19". To a layperson, and certainly to Sam, they put forward a rather watertight case. Intrinsic to the arguments advanced were the ideas that (a) experts in the area were refusing to engage with and unable to answer their arguments, and (b) a strong implication that there is a conspiracy of silence among virologists not just in China but internationally, to suppress the lab leak hypothesis.So, as a case study in the public understanding of science, it seems like a pretty pickle indeed. To help unravel the pickle(?) in this somewhat special episode, we are joined by three virologists who are amply qualified to address the topic; both in terms of the evidence and whether they are involved in a conspiracy of silence.Kristian Andersen is a Professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research. He focuses on the relationship between host and pathogen, using sequencing, fieldwork, experimentation, and computational biology methods. He has spearheaded large international collaborations investigating the emergence, spread and evolution of deadly pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, Zika virus, Ebola virus, West Nile virus, and Lassa virus.Prof Michael Worobey, is the head of the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. His work focuses on the genomes of viruses, using molecular and computational biology, to understand the origins, emergence and control of pandemics. Recently, his interdisciplinary work on SARS-CoV-2 has shed light on how and when the virus originated and ignited the COVID-19 pandemic in China and how SARS-CoV-2 emerged and took hold in North America and Europe.Prof Edward "Eddie" Holmes, is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow & Professor of Virology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health at Sydney University, a member of the Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of The Royal Society. He is known for his work on the evolution and emergence of infectious diseases, particularly the mechanisms by which RNA viruses jump species boundaries to emerge in humans and other animals. He has studied the emergence and spread of such pathogens as SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, dengue virus, HIV, hepatitis C virus, myxoma virus, RHDV and Yersinia pestis.All three researchers have specialist expertise and decades of experience directly applicable to tracking viruses and their adaption to humans, and, fair to say, are fairly eminent in their fields (Eddie in particular!). Further, they are among the relatively small set of researchers collecting and analysing primary evidence on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, communicating their findings in top-ranked journals, including Nature and Science. In this episode, Chris and Matt put to this trio of Professors the claims rasied by lab leak advocates to see what these (damn conspirators) experts have to say for themselves.LinksSam Harris Making Sense

Martijn van der Meer is wetenschapper en kent de markt van wetenschappelijke publicaties als geen ander. Eerder leerden wij dat grote uitgevers het in die markt voor het zeggen hebben, maar ‘open science' zou daar verandering in kunnen brengen. Toch niet, waarschuwt Martijn. Want met open wetenschap trekken grote uitgeverijen misschien wel méér macht naar zich toe.Martijn werkt als beleidsmedewerker onderzoek bij de Tilburg School of Humanities and Data Sciences, studeerde wetenschapsgeschiedenis en doet promotieonderzoek naar de geschiedenis van de preventieve jeugdgezondheidszorg in de twintigste eeuw.Tijdschema00:00:00 Reclame: ICT Group00:00:33 Guess who's back00:01:46 Voorstellen: Martijn van der Meer00:04:54 De status quo van publicerende wetenschappers00:14:42 De spanning tussen geld en kwaliteit00:21:52 Belastingbetalers betalen twéé keer00:29:02 De lange arm van Elsevier00:36:53 Wetenschappelijke uitgeverijen als big tech00:45:55 Kan de markt het wel oplossen?00:55:17 Reclame: Staatsloterij00:58:47 Vragen van de luisteraars01:08:31 Mislukte wetenschap01:20:55 Tips01:30:33 AfkondigingTipsRandal PeelenClubhuis-meetup 18 maart in BitlairViral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 door Alina Chan en Matt RidleyMaking Sense – #311 – Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab? van Sam HarrisMartijn van der MeerJournal of Trial & ErrorGothrechtJurian UbachsBoot 122 – (zeer toffe kroeg Utrecht, barman luistert ook MNOT)Gys (vegan restaurant Utrecht)Heee huhhh ineens The Mandalorian season 3 op Disney Plus huhhhZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of this topic, the history of collaboration between western scientists and Chinese labs, the risks of "gain-of-function" research, the evidence for the zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2, the initial complacency and denialism of the Chinese, the biosafety levels at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, molecular evidence of a lab leak, the practical constraints on synthesizing viruses, lack of international cooperation, conspiracy theories promulgated by the CCP, EcoHealth Alliance, different kinds of "gain-of-function" research, virus hunting, the history of lab leaks, risk and reward in the search for knowledge, Anthony Fauci, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe. Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That's why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life's most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of this topic, the history of collaboration between western scientists and Chinese labs, the risks of "gain-of-function" research, the evidence for the zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2, the initial complacency and denialism of the Chinese, the biosafety levels at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, molecular evidence of a lab leak, the practical constraints on synthesizing viruses, lack of international cooperation, conspiracy theories promulgated by the CCP, EcoHealth Alliance, different kinds of "gain-of-function" research, virus hunting, the history of lab leaks, risk and reward in the search for knowledge, Anthony Fauci, and other topics. Matt Ridley is a writer whose books have been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist, and The Evolution of Everything. His new book Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, co-authored with Alina Chan, was published in 2021. Matt sat in the House of Lords between 2013 and 2021 and served on the science and technology select committee and the artificial intelligence select committee. He was founding chairman of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle. He created the Mind and Matter column in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, and was a columnist for the Times 2013-2018. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Website: mattridley.co.uk Twitter: @mattwridley Alina Chan, Ph.D., is a scientific advisor and viral vector engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. She is a recent Broad Ignite fellow and Human Frontier Science Program fellow with a background in medical genetics, synthetic biology, and genetic engineering. During the pandemic, Dr. Chan investigated problems relevant to finding the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and co-authored Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 with Matt Ridley. In 2022, she joined the Pathogens Project Taskforce organized by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to generate new thinking on responsible high-risk pathogen research. Website: harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/alina-chan Twitter: @Ayjchan Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

When Matt Ridley joined us most recently, he and co-author Alina Chan - a molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering - had just released Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, which defends why people ought to take the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak hypothesis seriously. One year later - now that the politicization regarding every aspect of Covid has subdued - Matt rejoins the podcast to discuss what he's learned over the past twelve months.------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook  ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

When Matt Ridley joined us most recently, he and co-author Alina Chan - a molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering - had just released Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, which defends why people ought to take the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak hypothesis seriously. One year later - now that the politicization regarding every aspect of Covid has subdued - Matt rejoins the podcast to discuss what he's learned over the past twelve months.------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook 

Matt Ridley is the author of ten books, including most recently, with co-author Alina Chan, Viral: The Search For the Origin of Covid-19. In his third appearance on the podcast (previous appearances: July 7, 2020, and January 4, 2022), Ridley talks about Britain's energy crisis, why it must begin drilling for gas, the increasing evidence that the Covid pandemic was started by a lab leak, why China's vaccines haven't been effective, birds, birdwatching, and why the growing prosperity in Africa gives him hope. (Recorded on November 2, 2022.)

Megyn Kelly begins the show with a deep dive into the origins of COVID-19 - was it from a lab leak, or from nature? On one side is Tulane virologist Dr. Robert Garry, who discusses why he says science points to COVID-19 originating from nature, the importance of the furin cleavage site, what was actually happening at the Wuhan lab, the experimentation with gain-of-function research, why Garry originally said it was not natural then changed mind, his personal conversations with Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci, why he believes the wildlife market caused the "spillover," and more. Then Dr. Alina Chan, molecular biologist and MIT and Harvard scientific advisor, joins to discuss why she says science points to a leak from the Wuhan lab as the origin of COVID, what the reversal by scientists shows, the lack of transparency about the process, why Fauci and Collins would have wanted to clamp down on the lab leak theory, lack of evidence for both natural and lab origins, China's ongoing blame game, scientific naivete, why there might be suppression of data that could tell us more about the origins, and more. Then Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show and author of "A Strange Habit of Mind," joins to talk Dark Brandon's MEGA MAGA speech, Biden counting on dominance over our information, the changing media landscape to bring more independent sources, White House's deleted tweet after they were flagged for misinformation, the Supreme Court hearing an affirmative action case, and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow 

How do you tell the difference between truth and lies? The answer involves a careful process of seeking knowledge that may contradict our long held beliefs. In this episode, our hosts share two conversations with expert guests who changed Jim and Richard's minds about how they approach topics central to our understanding of politics, science, and society.Journalist and scholar Jonathan Rauch is the author of the best-selling book, "The Constitution of Knowledge". He makes a stirring case for the social system of checks and balances used by scientists, lawyers, business leaders, and researchers to turn disagreements into verifiable facts. Alina Chan is a Canadian molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is a postdoctoral fellow. Chan is the co-author of "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19."When she and several other scientists raised the possibility that the SARS CoV2 could have escaped from a lab, Chan's research was dismissed by many leading scientists and mainstream journalists. Some declared that her work was "a conspiracy theory." But Chan continues to ask crucial questions. The world needs to know the true origins of the pandemic in order to prevent the next dangerous virus from causing a future pandemic. A full and open investigation was never done.Both of our interviews underline the need for nuance, curiosity and open-minded approaches to the world's great problems. The "global network of people hunting for each others' errors is far and away the greatest technology ever invented," Rauch tells us. The constitution of knowledge, he says, "is a global conversation of people looking for truth, and more especially, looking for error."Recommendation: Richard is reading "Broken News" by political journalist Chris Stirewalt. This new book provides a crisp, passionate, well-judged argument of how the media rage machine divides America. Reporters in newsrooms are incentivized to write news stories that are full of emotion and anger. These reports very often get the most clicks and social media attention. This emphasis on anger and rage has polluted journalism, Stirewalt argues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On August 3rd, Senate Republicans held a hearing examining gain of function research: its possible role in creating the COVID-19 pandemic; the problems with oversight of this dangerous research; and recommendations to Congress for how to fix those problems. Episode Transcript Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Watch Jen's Interview on CSPAN!!! Background Sources Gain-of-function Research Talha Burki. Feb 1, 2018. “Ban on gain-of-function studies ends.” The Lancet Infectious Diseases 18(2): pp 148-149. “Framework for Guiding Funding Decisions about Proposed Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens.” 2017. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Michael J. Selgelid. Aug 8, 2016. “Gain-of-Function Research: Ethical Analysis.” Science and Engineering Ethics 22(4): pp 923-964. Sara Reardon. October 22, 2014. “US suspends risky disease research.” Nature 514: pp 411-412. “Doing Diligence to Assess the Risks and Benefits of Life Sciences Gain-of-Function Research.” Oct 17, 2014. The White House Blog. Board on Life Sciences; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Committee on Science, Technology, and Law; Policy and Global Affairs; Board on Health Sciences Policy; National Research Council; Institute of Medicine. April 13, 2015. “Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research: Summary of a Workshop.” National Academies Press. Marc Lipsitch. Jun 29, 2014. “Anthrax? That's Not the Real Worry.” The New York Times. COVID-19 Origin Theories Gary Ruskin. Sep 14, 2022. “Key articles on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs.” U.S. Right to Know. Alina Chan. Jul 30, 2022. “The evidence for a natural vs lab origin of Covid-19.” Medium. Maria Cheng and Janey Keaten. Jun 9, 2022. “WHO: COVID origins unclear but lab leak theory needs study.” AP News. “WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO): preliminary report.” Jun 9, 2022. World Health Organization. Carl Zimmer and James Gorman. Updated Oct 13, 2021. “A Group of Scientists Presses a Case Against the Lab Leak Theory of Covid.” The New York Times. Richard Muller and Steven Quay. Oct 5, 2021. “Science Closes In on Covid's Origins.” The Wall Street Journal. Steven Quay and Richard Muller. Jun 6, 2021. “The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak.” The Wall Street Journal. “TWiV 762: SARS-CoV-2 origins with Robert Garry.” May 30, 2021. This Week in Virology [Podcast]. Glenn Kessler. May 25, 2021. “Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible.” The Washington Post. Jorge Casesmeiro Roger. Mar 24, 2021. “An Interview with Richard Ebright: The WHO Investigation Members Were ‘participants in disinformation.'” Independent Science News. Josh Rogin. Mar 8, 2021. “In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened.” Politico. Jane Qiu. Jun 1, 2020. “How China's ‘Bat Woman' Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus.” Scientific American. EcoHealth Alliance and Funding for Coronavirus Research Katherine Eban. March 31, 2022. “‘This Shouldn't Happen': Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy.” Vanity Fair. Sharon Lerner and Maia Hibbett. Sep, 23 2021. “Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research.” The Intercept. Glenn Kessler. May 18, 2021. “Fact-checking the Paul-Fauci flap over Wuhan lab funding.” The Washington Post. Meredith Wadman and Jon Cohen. Apr 30, 2020. “NIH's axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent' and might break rules, critics say.” Science. National Institutes of Health. May 27, 2014. NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance for Wuhan research. NIH RePORTER. NIH Database Data Removal Amy Dockser Marcus. Jun 23, 2021. “Chinese Covid-19 Gene Data That Could Have Aided Pandemic Research Removed From NIH Database.” The Hearing Revisiting Gain of Function Research: What the Pandemic Taught Us and Where Do We Go From Here August 3, 2022 Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Witnesses: Richard H. Ebright, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Laboratory Director, Rutgers University Waksman Institute of Microbiology Testimony Steven Quay, CEO and Founder, Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. Testimony Kevin M. Esvelt, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Testimony Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-viral Finalist #12 in the Book Review Contest       [This is one of the finalists in the 2022 book review contest. It's not by me - it's by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I'll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you've read them all, I'll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked - SA] Introduction   Alina Chan and Matt Ridley's Viral is a book about the investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. In case you haven't been following, there's been a shift in the scientific consensus on this topic. For about the first year of the pandemic, it was widely accepted that SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, had a natural origin, meaning that it first spread to humans naturally from an animal (also called a zoonotic origin). Any suggestion that it could have come from a lab was dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Then, sometime around spring 2021 something changed. Well-known, respected scientists began to voice the opinion that SARS-CoV-2 might have come from a lab, or that it's at least a plausible hypothesis that deserves an investigation. The scientific consensus abruptly shifted from “definitely natural origin” to “both natural origin and lab origin are viable hypotheses that should be investigated.” Viral is a deep dive into this issue from all angles, covering the basics of virology, the history and epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic, the response of scientific and governmental institutions, and various pieces of evidence for both hypotheses. It doesn't contain any new, bombshell revelations, but it's a neat, accessible summary of the scattered bits of information that have been uncovered since the start of the pandemic. In this review I'll try to distill some of the most important information and discuss my own interpretation of it.  I enjoyed the book and recommend it to anyone interested in the topic. However, many of the authors' points (especially on technical issues) have counterpoints from other scientists who lean more heavily towards the natural origins hypothesis. So I think it's best to include the book as part of a “package-deal” recommendation, rather than presenting it as a perfectly objective source. The last section of this review will include some more recommended sources to check out, including writing from advocates of the natural origins hypothesis with counterpoints to claims made in the book. I'll also link one here in case you don't make it that far. In my view, the book actually deals with two separate topics. The first is the object-level question – where did COVID come from? The second is the meta-level question – what can we say about the ability and willingness of different institutions to answer the question of the pandemic's origins? 

Nick talks to science writer Matt Ridley, who most recently published the book, "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19" together with molecular biologist Dr. Alina Chan. They discussed what is known and still unknown about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the latest developments in that mystery which have come to light in the past few months; the relationship between institutional science and politics; whether we are ever likely to know definitively the origins of this virus, and more.Support M&M:Sign up for the weekly Mind & Matter newsletter[https://mindandmatter.substack.com/?sort=top]Athletic Greens, comprehensive daily nutrition (Free 1-year supply Vitamin D w/ purchase)[https://www.athleticgreens.com/mindandmatter]Follow Nick's work through Linktree:[https://linktr.ee/trikomes]Organize your digital highlights & notes w/ Readwise (2 months free w/ sub)[https://readwise.io/nickjikomes/]Learn more about our podcast sponsor, Dosist[https://dosist.com]Support the show

This episode is about environmental alarmism. Alarmism means exaggerating danger and thereby causing needless worry or panic. These days the media is flooded with proclamations and predictions of ecological catastrophe. There is no doubt that our environmental challenges are many, and huge, and they certainly do present dangers. But are they being seen in the context of broader developmental challenges and associated trade-offs? Or in the context of humankind's past achievements, and our ability to adapt? And is alarmist rhetoric the best way to motivate action to deal with them? Among the people offering answers to questions like these, is this month's guest on The Case for Conservation Podcast, Matt Ridley.Matt was, until he retired last year, an elected member of the UK Parliament's House of Lords. He's been been writer and/or editor for The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and his non-fiction books have sold more than a million copies. They include "The Rational Optimist", "The Evolution of Everything", "How Innovation Works" and, most recently, "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19". His 2010 TED talk, "When Ideas Have Sex", has been viewed more than 2 and a half million times, and he's spoken on various other popular forums including, quite recently, the Jordan Peterson Podcast.Links to resources:Mattridley.co.uk - Matt's website, where all his other books, his blog, and other information can be foundThe Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves - Perhaps the most relevant of Matt's books to our conversation - published in 2010How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time - another of Matt's books relevant to our discussion - published in 2020Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 - Matt's most recent book, co-authored with Alina Chan (2021)When ideas have sex - Matt's TED talk in 2010, which has had more than two and a half million viewsEmissions – the ‘business as usual' story is misleading - 2020 article by Zeke Hausfather and Glen Peters in the journal, "Nature", about RCP 8.5Time stamps:02:50: Matt's response to a Guardian article about climate change terminology06:59: Species conservation and reports of species loss due to to climate change13:35: A counsel of despair15:32: The possible influence of funding in environmental rhetoric17:40: How innovation helps conservation24:40: How ecological footprint calculations may be misleading; finite resources34:23: The Jevons paradox35:42: The evolution of lightbulb technology; prehistoric technology without innovation38:12: Which environmental issues are being neglected?42:14: Invasive species as a driver of biodiversity loss45:32: Is deforestation the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic?48:27: Is there a link between environmental alarmism and theories of Covid-19 origins?Visit www.case4conservation.com

(The Origins Podcast will appear every other Thursday.) Matt Ridley is a veteran journalist and science writer, with a training in genetics. He is also a Conservative member of the House of Lords in the UK. Matt and I were able to discuss his training, and his move from scientist to journalist, as well as the spectrum of his experiences in his various roles. We then moved on to the centerpiece of our dialogue: His newest book, Viral, written with geneticist Alina Chan. Together they produced what I view to be a masterpiece of science writing and detective work, exploring the origins of Covid-19. Our discussion, like the book, allowed us to illustrate a lot of the science related to the virus, and the current pandemic.There are numerous surprises. One of the most remarkable was the realization that much of the important detective work uncovering the possible origin of the pandemic came from self-trained internet sleuths who were able to uncover masters theses, as well as online registries that had either not been referenced in the professional literature, or incorrectly referenced.One comes away from the discussion with the realization that we still do not know for certain the origin of Covid-19, in spite of claims to the contrary. Recent, highly publicized scientific articles suggesting the Wuhan Seafood Market as the origin still have to deal with the fact that no direct evidence of the virus has yet to be uncovered from any of the animals at the market. At the same time, there is clear evidence that the Wuhan Virology Institute was working on Covid viruses, including viruses from bats that had caused Covid-like symptoms coming from a cave located far away in China. Neither Ridley nor Chan advocate any particular scenario for the current outbreak. But it is clear that open, transparent discussion of the available evidence is very important if the world is to understand better how this pandemic started, and how to possibly head off, or prepare for the next one. I found our discussion, and the book, incredibly informative, and Matt is a lucid and experienced explicator of both science, and social issues. I hope you enjoy the in-depth discussion we had in this, our most recent episode of The Origins Podcast. Note that all future ad-free video podcasts will be available to paid subscribers only. The audio version will always be free to all, and a video version on Youtube will also always be available. Get full access to Critical Mass at lawrencekrauss.substack.com/subscribe

In February 2020, The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, published a statement by more than two dozen scientists condemning the hypothesis that COVID-19 had leaked from a Chinese lab — effectively halting scientific inquiry along those lines. But a handful of researchers refused to rule out the so-called “lab-leak” theory and soon found themselves shunned and ostracized by their colleagues.Alina Chan, a molecular biologist and then-postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, was one such researcher. This week on Banished, host Amna Khalid talks with Chan about the politicization of science.More from Booksmart Studios: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit banished.substack.com/subscribe

General Buy Matt and Alina Chan's book ‘Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19': https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Search-COVID-19-Matt-Ridley/dp/006313912X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GSU5N0P40R26&keywords=matt+ridley&qid=1648046232&sprefix=matt+ridley%2Caps%2C253&sr=8-1 Matt's website, where you can find out more about him and his other books and work: https://www.mattridley.co.uk/ Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattwridley References Some of Michael Worobey's work on the origins of Covid-19: https://twitter.com/MichaelWorobey/status/1497607313397481472?s=20&t=_ov6duwWi7DQZDRa5t9q4A Two for Tea episode with Azra Raza on fighting cancer: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/64-azra-raza-a-better-way-to-fight-cancer Two for Tea episode with Brian D. Earp on circumcision: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/13-brian-earp Iona's Areo article on circumcision: https://areomagazine.com/2019/09/24/a-wrong-against-boys-an-impossible-conversation-about-circumcision/ Timestamps 00.00 Opening and introduction: the debate over the origins of Covid-19, the reception of and controversy over ‘Viral', and why the origins debate matters for everyone. 8:40 Will the origins debate ever be settled? 18:58 What we know for certain plus some possible scenarios of how Covid-19 spread. Matt explains why the ‘lab-leak' hypothesis is plausible. 25:28 Objections to the lab-leak hypothesis and Matt's responses. 42:30 Here be technical scientific stuff: the cutting edge of knowledge in molecular biology—how furin cleavage sites work. Plus: the duties of writing about science. 49:25 More objections to the lab-leak hypothesis and Matt's responses. 1:11:50 The benefits and risks of gain-of-function research. Plus: circumcision and the problems with the World Health Organization. 1:21:32 Does ‘Viral' underestimate the dangers of zoonotic transmission of diseases? Plus: the deforestation/ecological argument about Covid's origins. 1:24:31 Developments since the publication of ‘Viral' and the plans for the paperback. 1:27:50 Last words and outro.

Alina Chan is a molecular biologist working at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She published a book with 2 time past VCP guest Matt Ridley about the origin of Coronavirus that exposed a narrative that was very different from what was being reported at the time. She returns to the podcast to talk with Vance about what's changed with the story about the origin of Coronavirus since her last appearance, the story about bioweapon in Ukraine/Russia, and the speed of the news cycle. She also talks based on her experience as a molecular biologist about viruses, how they're studied in biology and the the financial dynamics of this space. Follow Alina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AyjchanAlina and Matt's book: https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Search-Covid-19-Alina-Chan-ebook/dp/B096TCFVYPPODCAST LINKS —Vance Crowe Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcastYouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCigB7W5bX_gCinJxev9WB8w/YouTube Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJKKb66A5_4ZcsE-rKI24ygBuy a sweatshirt, T-shirt or mugs from the podcast! Check out the Articulate Ventures Merch Store: https://teespring.com/stores/thevancecrowepodcastSubscribe to the podcast for email notifications on new episodes, invites to events and other exclusive content — http://eepurl.com/gSTfk5ABOUT THE VANCE CROWE PODCAST — Vance Crowe interviews people with an expertise that you would want to know about, but might not think to ask. He prompts his guests to think about their work in novel ways, discusses how it applies to regular people and has fun sharing stories and experiences.SUPPORT THE PODCAST —Rate the Podcast |  https://ratethispodcast.com/vcpJoin the Articulate Ventures Network | https://network.articulate.ventures/ —We are a patchwork of thinkers that want to articulate ideas in a forum where they can be respectfully challenged, improved and celebrated so that we can explore complex subjects, learn from those we disagree with and achieve our personal & professional goals.Contact Vance for a Talk | https://www.vancecrowe.com/ —Vance delivers speeches that reveal important aspects of human communication.  Audiences are entertained, engaged, and leave feeling empowered to change something about the way they are communicating.  Vance tells stories about his own experiences, discusses theories in ways that make them relatable and highlights interesting people, books, and media that the audience can learn even more from. Join the #ATCF Book Club | https://articulate.ventures/category/atcf-book-club

Als SARS-CoV-2 entdeckt wurde, war Alina Chan eine unbekannte Postdoktorandin im angesehenen Broad-Institut in Boston. Zwei Jahre später ist sie eine der prominentesten Vertreterinnen einer ungeheuren Vermutung: Die Pandemie sei durch den Menschen ausgelöst worden. Das Pandemia-Team hat zum Auftakt der Bonus-Serie mit Chan darüber gesprochen, was Sie zu ihrer Meinung gebracht hat und wie die Debatte ihr Leben verändert hat. Caught in the Crossfire Over Covid's Origins, New York Times They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab, MIT Technology Review Investigate the origins of COVID-19, Science SARS-CoV-2 is well adapted for humans. What does this mean for re-emergence? Supporte Pandemia mit einer Spende über Paypal. Vielen Dank! Höre Bonusfolgen, werbefrei und früher! Klub Pandemia Pandemia Plus bei Apple Podcasts Mehr Infos zu den Klub- und Plus-Angeboten gibt's unter klub.viertausendhertz.de. Alle Podcasts von unserem Podcastlabel Viertausendhertz unter viertausendhertz.de/podcasts. Bewerte Pandemia bei Apple Podcasts & Spotify Folge Pandemia bei Instagram & Twitter

Als SARS-CoV-2 entdeckt wurde, war Alina Chan eine unbekannte Postdoktorandin im angesehenen Broad-Institut in Boston. Zwei Jahre später ist sie eine der prominentesten Vertreterinnen einer ungeheuren Vermutung: Die Pandemie sei durch den Menschen ausgelöst worden. Das Pandemia-Team hat zum Auftakt der Bonus-Serie mit Chan darüber gesprochen, was Sie zu ihrer Meinung gebracht hat und wie die Debatte ihr Leben verändert hat. Caught in the Crossfire Over Covid's Origins, New York Times They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab, MIT Technology Review Investigate the origins of COVID-19, Science SARS-CoV-2 is well adapted for humans. What does this mean for re-emergence? Supporte Pandemia mit einer Spende über Paypal. Vielen Dank! Höre Bonusfolgen, werbefrei und früher! Klub Pandemia Pandemia Plus bei Apple Podcasts Mehr Infos zu den Klub- und Plus-Angeboten gibt's unter klub.viertausendhertz.de. Alle Podcasts von unserem Podcastlabel Viertausendhertz unter viertausendhertz.de/podcasts. Bewerte Pandemia bei Apple Podcasts & Spotify Folge Pandemia bei Instagram & Twitter

Als SARS-CoV-2 entdeckt wurde, war Alina Chan eine unbekannte Postdoktorandin im angesehenen Broad-Institut in Boston. Zwei Jahre später ist sie eine der prominentesten Vertreterinnen einer ungeheuren Vermutung: Die Pandemie sei durch den Menschen ausgelöst worden. Das Pandemia-Team hat zum Auftakt der Bonus-Serie mit Chan darüber gesprochen, was Sie zu ihrer Meinung gebracht hat und wie die Debatte ihr Leben verändert hat. Caught in the Crossfire Over Covid's Origins, New York Times They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab, MIT Technology Review Investigate the origins of COVID-19, Science SARS-CoV-2 is well adapted for humans. What does this mean for re-emergence? Supporte Pandemia mit einer Spende über Paypal. Vielen Dank! Höre Bonusfolgen, werbefrei und früher! Klub Pandemia Pandemia Plus bei Apple Podcasts Mehr Infos zu den Klub- und Plus-Angeboten gibt's unter klub.viertausendhertz.de. Alle Podcasts von unserem Podcastlabel Viertausendhertz unter viertausendhertz.de/podcasts. Bewerte Pandemia bei Apple Podcasts & Spotify Folge Pandemia bei Instagram & Twitter

Als SARS-CoV-2 entdeckt wurde, war Alina Chan eine unbekannte Postdoktorandin im angesehenen Broad-Institut in Boston. Zwei Jahre später ist sie eine der prominentesten Vertreterinnen einer ungeheuren Vermutung: Die Pandemie sei durch den Menschen ausgelöst worden. Das Pandemia-Team hat zum Auftakt der Bonus-Serie mit Chan darüber gesprochen, was Sie zu ihrer Meinung gebracht hat und wie die Debatte ihr Leben verändert hat. Caught in the Crossfire Over Covid's Origins, New York Times They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab, MIT Technology Review Investigate the origins of COVID-19, Science SARS-CoV-2 is well adapted for humans. What does this mean for re-emergence? Supporte Pandemia mit einer Spende über Paypal. Vielen Dank! Höre Bonusfolgen, werbefrei und früher! Klub Pandemia Pandemia Plus bei Apple Podcasts Mehr Infos zu den Klub- und Plus-Angeboten gibt's unter klub.viertausendhertz.de. Alle Podcasts von unserem Podcastlabel Viertausendhertz unter viertausendhertz.de/podcasts. Bewerte Pandemia bei Apple Podcasts & Spotify Folge Pandemia bei Instagram & Twitter

Rising is coming to a podcast near you! Plus, scientific advisor at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Alina Chan, answers the hosts' questions about the lab leak and wet market theories of Covid-19.Subscribe and share so you never miss an episode!Rising is a weekday morning show hosted by Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave. It breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before, providing outside-of-the-beltway perspectives. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders and outsiders alike to provide coverage not provided on cable news. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political newsmakers.Where to watch:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thehillFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/HillTVLive/Website: Thehill.com/hilltvFollow on..Twitter: @HillTVLiveTik Tok: @RisingTheHillNewsletter: http://thehill.com/risingtodayInstagram: @HillTV

Biologist and Author, Matt Ridley joins us in the studio. His latest title, co-authored with Alina Chan, Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, is now available. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/​​​ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/​​​ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod​​​ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. - CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 01:46 Lab Leak: Conspiracy Theory to Mainstream 04:12 Why Does it Matter Where COVID Came From? 05:48 The Evidence for Wuhan Lab Leak Theory 15:36 Gain-of-Function Research: Purpose and Risks 29:51 Biosafety at the Wuhan Institute of Biology  34:13 Previous Lab Leaks and Cover-Ups 37:15 How Do We Prevent Another Pandemic? 50:02 Will We Ever Find Out What Happened? 52:57 Biotechnology / De-extinction

Bronwyn Williams & Matt Ridley [The Small Print] A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question to answer have been dashed. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the crucial mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not only unresolved but has deepened. In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to author  Matt Ridley about his latest book “Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19.” They discuss the possibility of Covid having originated in a lab in Wuhan, the politicisation of science as an institution, and what scientists can — and should — do to regain the trust of the general public. Bronwyn and Matt also explore some of Matt's other writings on progress and why, despite some of the difficulties we face today, he remains a rational optimist. Book: https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Search-COVID-19-Matt-Ridley/dp/006313912X Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams. Twitter: https://twitter.com/bronwynwilliams Flux Trends: https://www.fluxtrends.com/future-flux/futurist-in-residence/ Website: https://whatthefuturenow.com/ Matt Ridley is a British author and businessman. He is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books, including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (1994), Genome (1999), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010) and The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2015). His latest book, which he co-authored with Alina Chan, is Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (2021). He publishes a blog and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper. Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattwridley Website: https://www.mattridley.co.uk/ Subscribe to our Substack: https://discourseza.substack.com/   Follow us on Social Media: YouTube: https://bit.ly/2u46Mdy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/discourse-za Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discourseza/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/discourseza  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discourseza/

It has been almost 2 years since the COVID19 pandemic - one of the most significant outbreaks in living history - was declared. But where did the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes severe respiratory disease come from? Spillover from the wild? Leaked from a lab? We explore what we know about the lineage of this virus and the evidence gathered so far... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

It has been almost 2 years since the COVID19 pandemic - one of the most significant outbreaks in living history - was declared. But where did the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes severe respiratory disease come from? Spillover from the wild? Leaked from a lab? We explore what we know about the lineage of this virus and the evidence gathered so far... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Today's guest is molecular biologist Dr. Alina Chan, a fellow at the Broad Institute and co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She has been one of the most prominent commentators on the origins of COVID-19 and has attracted controversy for encouraging more serious consideration of the possibility that the pandemic began through an accident at a virology lab. She has been credited for changing the discussion about the issue and causing scientists and the media to pay more attention to the possibility of a lab accident than they were previously. In this episode we discuss:- The various possible ways the pandemic could have begun and why "lab leak" and "natural origin" can be somewhat misleading terms- How the politicization of the debate has gotten in the way of having a serious discussion about the facts, since the right is committed to the lab hypothesis and the left does not want to consider a hypothesis that the right is so committed to- What the actual evidence we currently have is (not much)- How investigations into COVID-19's origins have been compromised- What the stakes of finding the truth are, and how people's worldviews and narratives are threatened by conclusions they don't like- What a "lab accident" would look like and why it could easily come from well-intentioned research intending to stop pandemics, rather than nefarious attempts to manufacture a bioweaponThe articles in the Los Angeles Times and Science suggesting that the virus is unlikely to have been released from a lab are here and here. Nathan's own article on the origins of COVID-19 is here.

Matt Ridley is a former member of the House of Lords, and the author of ten books, including most recently, with Alina Chan, of Viral: The Search For the Origin of Covid-19. In this episode, he discusses why the pandemic may have been caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China's efforts to suppress information, how “open-source analysts” helped expose the origins of the virus, vaccine development, and why Covid may eventually “become the common cold.”

Meet Dr. Alina Chan, a molecular biologist and author of Viral, a book she co-wrote with renowned science writer Matt Ridley, where they go on the hunt for the origin of COVID-19. The book is educational and at times shocking, covering everything from pangolins and horseshoe bats to internet sleuths and misleading scientific papers.Alina is also a postdoc fellow at the Broad Institute, a biomedical and genomic research center that evolved from research collaborations among MIT and Harvard scientists.In this episode of the Lady Scientist Podcast, Alina shares her tumultuous journey as she wrote her debut book, her discoveries in the process, and the fascinating research that led to it. You can find Alina at https://twitter.com/Ayjchan. Support the podcast by subscribing to our channels, signing up for our newsletter, and leaving a review or comment. Thank you for listening!To purchase a copy of Viral:Harper Collinshttps://t.co/IsBR0oGJud?amp=1Amazonhttps://t.co/0MVf2PeN6V?amp=1Support our podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ladyscientistpodcast

今天海峡论谈节目为观众介绍两本最近推出的新书。节目上半场，美国之音记者方冰专访新书《病毒：新冠肺炎溯源》作者曾昱嘉（Alina Chan)。2021年11月，32岁的美国亚裔科学家曾昱嘉和英国科学作家马特·雷德利(Matt Ridley)合著的《病毒：新冠肺炎溯源》 在美国上市，该书被誉为梳理病毒溯源各种理论最全面的著作之一。 节目下半场，美国之音记者江真专访《习近平 ：全世界最有权势的人》一书作者佳杰思。2021年10月，两位德国前驻华记者佳杰思和奥斯特，联手撰写推出德文版《习近平 – 全世界最有权势的人》一书。

Dr. Alina Chan is a co-author of the book, VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, and a researcher with a background in medical genetics, synthetic biology, and vector engineering. At the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Dr. Chan is currently creating next generation vectors for human gene therapy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Chan began to investigate problems relevant to finding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and in parallel spearheaded the development of the COVID-19 CoV Genetics (covidcg.org) browser for scientists worldwide to rapidly track virus lineages and mutations by locations and date ranges of interest.

Dr. Alina Chan is a co-author of the book, VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, and a researcher with a background in medical genetics, synthetic biology, and vector engineering. At the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Dr. Chan is currently creating next generation vectors for human gene therapy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Chan began to investigate problems relevant to finding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and in parallel spearheaded the development of the COVID-19 CoV Genetics (covidcg.org) browser for scientists worldwide to rapidly track virus lineages and mutations by locations and date ranges of interest.

In Hour 2, Chris talks about the Omicron variant and how lethal it is.  Also we play audio of Dr Alina Chan on the origins of Wuhan. For more coverage on the issues that matter to you download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 5:00am-9:00am Monday-Friday. To join the conversation, check us out on twitter @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scientist, author, and Member of the House of Lords Matt Ridley returns to share his findings from an investigation into the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis. We also talked about Britain's worsening energy crisis, the differences between American and British conservatism, and much more. Lord Ridley is the co-author with scientist Alina Chan of the new book "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19." Follow him on Twitter at @mattwridley.

Hour 1: Mark starts the show discussing books and how often he reads. Dr. Alina Chan is the co-author of the book “Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19.” Dr. Aline Tanios, pediatric hospitalist at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, discusses our Tree of Hope campaign. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question to answer have been dashed. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the crucial mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not only unresolved but has deepened. In this conversation based on the uniquely insightful book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, Matt Ridley reviews how he and his co-author Alina Chan have tried to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometers away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually create: no infected market animals or wildlife, no chains of early cases in travelers to the city, no smoldering epidemic in a rural area, no rapid adaptation of the virus to its new host — human beings. To try to solve this pressing mystery, Ridley delves deep into the events of 2019 leading up to 2021, the details of what went on in animal markets and virology laboratories, the records and data hidden from sight within archived Chinese theses and websites, and the clues that can be coaxed from the very text of the virus's own genetic code.

Matt Ridley, co-author (with postdoctoral researcher Alina Chan) of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 and member of the United Kingdom's House of Lords, joins The Realignment to discuss lessons from leading a decentralized scientific investigation into COVID's origins, how the leading scientific journals, mainstream outlets, and governments have helped or stymied the investigation, what we currently do and don't know about COVID's origins, and why it matters. Subscribe to The Realignment's Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment's Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

Nathan Eckersley is joined by author and biologist Matt Ridley about the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and finding the origin of the pandemic. Matt Ridley is a British journalist, businessman and biologist known for his science books including "Genome" and "The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge" and his regular contributions to The Times newspaper. In his new book, "Viral" her partners with genetic engineering expert Dr Alina Chan to explore the evidence and hypotheses surrounding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more and buy the book "Viral" here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/viral/alina-chan/matt-ridley/9780008487492 DISCLAIMER: Any facts, statistics and news stories mentioned in this episode are true and relevant as of the time it was recorded. All opinions stated on this podcast are representative only of the people they are credited to and are not a representation of any sponsors, advertisers or partners involved in The Nathan Eckersley Podcast, including W!ZARD Studios and Nathan Eckersley. Please do not try to send in a message or opinion whilst listening to this podcast as your message won't be read but you might still be charged. For our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions, please visit: www.wizardradio.co.uk Spotted a mistake on this podcast? Let us know and we'll try to fix it. Message us using the Contact Form on: www.wizardradio.co.uk/about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A crucial step in preventing the next global pandemic will be knowing where this one came from. Did SARS-CoV-2— the virus that causes Covid-19— jump from animals to humans, or was the outbreak the result of a lab leak? The world still doesn't know the answer. This episode is part two of our wide-ranging interview with Alina Chan, a postdoctoral scientist who co-wrote an explosive online paper in May 2020. She argued that scientists and governments should investigate whether a virus from a laboratory in Wuhan, China caused the pandemic.“It's not about holding one country accountable, because we are all accountable for this,” Alina tells us. “We're all in this together.”In this episode, we discuss the need for much greater transparency when viral outbreaks occur. The world needs to adopt new policies and strategies to prevent or mitigate future outbreaks. Proposed solutions include: more regulation of scientific experiments— including “gain of function” research, better lab safety standards, greater international oversight of groups that study how viruses cross species barriers, and a global treaty governing viral research.Alina Chan co-wrote “Viral” with British science writer Matt Ridley. “Unfortunately, there are no enforceable international biosafety and biosecurity standards,” they write. Their newly-published book has prompted further controversy and pushback from some well-known scientists. We think a full airing of the questions raised by Dr. Chan's research is central to our mission at “How Do We Fix It?”Recommendation: Jim is reading "In the Heart of The Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex”, by history writer Nathaniel Philbrick. The book won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The Essex sank after a sperm whale attacked it in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alina Chan is a molecular biologist who specializes in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. She published a pre-print document regarding a hypothesis about how COVID-19 might have entered humans. This led Chan on a wild adventure to discover COVID-19 true origins.Alina Chan is the co-author of the book Viral with Matt Ridley. To purchase the book and support the podcast use this link: https://amzn.to/3o5DSq4 Alina Chan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AyjchanPODCAST LINKS —Vance Crowe Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vance-crowe-podcast/id1463771076Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08nGGRJCjVw2frkbtNrfLw?si=WUCu-FoyRRu9U_i-1gJZfgRSS: https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-vance-crowe-podcastYouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCigB7W5bX_gCinJxev9WB8w/YouTube Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJKKb66A5_4ZcsE-rKI24ygBuy a sweatshirt, T-shirt or mugs from the podcast! Check out the Articulate Ventures Merch Store: https://teespring.com/stores/thevancecrowepodcastSubscribe to the podcast for email notifications on new episodes, invites to events and other exclusive content — http://eepurl.com/gSTfk5ABOUT THE VANCE CROWE PODCAST — Vance Crowe interviews people with an expertise that you would want to know about, but might not think to ask. He prompts his guests to think about their work in novel ways, discusses how it applies to regular people and has fun sharing stories and experiences.SUPPORT THE PODCAST —Rate the Podcast |  https://ratethispodcast.com/vcpJoin the Articulate Ventures Network | https://network.articulate.ventures/ —We are a patchwork of thinkers that want to articulate ideas in a forum where they can be respectfully challenged, improved and celebrated so that we can explore complex subjects, learn from those we disagree with and achieve our personal & professional goals.Contact Vance for a Talk | https://www.vancecrowe.com/ —Vance delivers speeches that reveal important aspects of human communication.  Audiences are entertained, engaged, and leave feeling empowered to change something about the way they are communicating.  Vance tells stories about his own experiences, discusses theories in ways that make them relatable and highlights interesting people, books, and media that the audience can learn even more from. Join the #ATCF Book Club | https://articulate.ventures/category/atcf-book-club

Michael is joined by Matt Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, journalist and businessman to discuss his new co-authored book ‘Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19'.   Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind.  Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic.   This disease will forever punctuate modern history. It has led to the deaths of millions, sickened hundreds of millions and affected the lives of almost every person on the planet. We now know that Covid is here to stay.   Genetic engineering expert Dr Alina Chan and renowned science writer Matt Ridley examine the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, using their formidable skills to scrutinise arguments and rigorously analyse the sprawling data.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two years after the known human case of COVID-19, the mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains unresolved. Did the virus emerge from an animal in nature, or could it have accidentally leaked from a research lab in Wuhan, China? Shockingly, the world appears to be no closer to knowing the crucial answer.In this first of two episodes, we get a brief explanation of the growing controversy from our co-host, Jim Meigs, who has written about allegations of a scientific cover-up. Molecular biologist Alina Chan, a postdoctoral fellow in a gene therapy lab at the Broad Institute, is our interview guest.Dr. Chan first became widely known last year for suggesting that COVID-19 could have escaped from a laboratory. Her early research was called a "conspiracy theory" by leading scientists and mainstream media journalists. But in recent months, expert views of this mystery have decisively changed.Alina Chan and British science writer Matt Ridley — a past guest on How Do We Fix It? — are the co-authors of the new book, "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19." Our next episode will include part two of our interview with Alina Chan. We believe that finding the answer to how this virus first spread will be a vital part of preventing the next pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Episode 796, we had Alina Chan on to talk about The Origin of Covid-19, and the new book that she co-authored, Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. And in this episode, we have the other co-author of the book, Matt Ridley on to talk more about the purpose, and journey of writing the book. Should we still be optimistic about the pandemic, and will anything good come out of it? Also, why is it so hard for anyone to look for the origin of the virus?My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

In Episode 796, we had Alina Chan on to talk about The Origin of Covid-19, and the new book that she co-authored, Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. And in this episode, we have the other co-author of the book, Matt Ridley on to talk more about the purpose, and journey of writing the book. Should we still be optimistic about the pandemic, and will anything good come out of it? Also, why is it so hard for anyone to look for the origin of the virus?My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook

On this week's #SWYSI we are joined by Matt (Lord) Ridley, the distinguished journalist and businessman best known for his articles and books on science, the environment and economics. In this episode he discusses his important new book: "Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19" To quote from the book's description: "Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic. "This disease will forever punctuate modern history. It has led to the deaths of millions, sickened hundreds of millions and affected the lives of almost every person on the planet. We now know that Covid is here to stay. "Genetic engineering expert Dr Alina Chan and renowned science writer Matt Ridley examine the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, using their formidable skills to scrutinise arguments and rigorously analyse the sprawling data. Viral is a fascinating account that takes in pangolins, horseshoe bats, internet sleuths and misleading scientific papers. It details the evidence and investigates hypotheses for the virus origin, chief among them a potential laboratory leak or a natural spillover. "Science has made great strides over the last decades. Chan and Ridley give an insight into the proliferating pathogen research and virus hunting around the world. Whatever the source of the virus, the world needs to adopt new policies and strategies to prevent or mitigate future outbreaks. "Set in the caves and mineshafts, food markets and wildlife smugglers' stores, laboratories and databases of China and elsewhere, Viral is a page-turner that reads like a detective novel and goes deeper into the deepest mystery of the day than any other work. This is the book on the search for the origin of Covid-19." To order the book please click here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viral-Search... --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath the video and then Click on the Bell icon next to it to make sure you Receive All Notifications) AUDIO: If you prefer Audio you can subscribe on itunes or Soundcloud. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-923838732 itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... SUPPORT/DONATE: "So What You're Saying Is.." is still very new and to continue to produce quality programming we need your support. Your donations will help ensure the show not only continues but can grow into a major online platform challenging the cultural orthodoxies dominant in our institutions, public life and media. PAYPAL/ CARD PAYMENTS - ONE TIME & MONTHLY: You can donate in a variety of ways via our website: http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk/#do... It is set up to accept one time and monthly donations. ABOUT THE SHOW: So What You're Saying Is... (SWYSI) is a weekly discussion show with experts and significant figures from the political, cultural and academic worlds. The host is Peter Whittle (@PRWhittle), Founder & Director of The New Culture Forum, a Westminster-based think tank that seeks to challenge the cultural orthodoxies dominant in the media, academia, and British culture / society at large. JOIN US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Web: http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk F: https://www.facebook.com/NCultureForum/ Y: http://www.youtube.com/c/NewCultureForum T: http://www.twitter.com/NewCultureForum (@NewCultureForum)

Ingenuism -- We believe that the basic source of innovation is human ingenuity—the process of using creative thinking to solve productive challenges. But to benefit from ingenuity, we need to understand the conditions that allow it to function, generate new ideas, and solve challenging problems. Today's episode we discuss the origins of the Covid-19 virus. What are the implications of the Lab Leak Theory? What is the probability the virus came directly from Nature? What are the implications for progress, human well being? Does Gain Of Function make sense?Yaron discusses this and much more with Matt Ridley, co-author with Alina Chan of Viral: The Search For the Origins of Covid-19. Matt is an award winning science writer. His books have been shortlisted for six literary awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters). He has been a scientist, a journalist, and a national newspaper columnist, and is the chairman of the International Centre for Life, in Newcastle, England. Matt Ridley is also a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.Buy the book on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Search-C...#OriginOfCovid #MattRidley #AlinaChan #Ingenuism #LabLeakTheory #GainOfFunctionResearch #Viral #Covid-19

The origin of Covid-19 still remains a mystery that may never be solved. Was it the result of a spillover from animals to humans, or the result of a lab leak? The idea that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China has been widely condemned as a conspiracy theory fuelled by anti-Chinese sentiment. But some people insist lab leak is a plausible theory, and one of them is Canadian molecular biologist Dr Alina Chan. She's a gene-therapy specialist at the Broad Institute of MIT at Harvard, and has co-authored a book with popular science writer Matt Ridley, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. 

The origin of Covid-19 still remains a mystery that may never be solved. Was it the result of a spillover from animals to humans, or the result of a lab leak? The idea that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China has been widely condemned as a conspiracy theory fuelled by anti-Chinese sentiment. But some people insist lab leak is a plausible theory, and one of them is Canadian molecular biologist Dr Alina Chan. She's a gene-therapy specialist at the Broad Institute of MIT at Harvard, and has co-authored a book with popular science writer Matt Ridley, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. 

Dennis talks to Matt Ridley, best-selling science writer and member of the House of Lords in the UK. His new book (with Alina Chan). His new book is Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Ridley is a science writer and member of the House of Lords, and Alina Chan is a scientist and molecular biologist. They are the authors of the new book “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.” They join the show to discuss the genesis of the pandemic, Chinese obfuscation, and how transparency is needed to forestall future plagues.

A couple of months back, I came down to a serious case of Covid-19/ Corona Virus, so I am really interested in the origin of the virus, why is Covid-19 different than the other flu-like disease, what was the origin, and what is the outlook for the future?So I have Alina Chan, a molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who came on to talk about a new book that he co-author with Matt Ridley, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She talked about her findings, what could be the origin of Covid-19, why is Covid-19 so much deadlier than the other flu-like diseases, and could it or could it not be engineered?We also talked about, what are the role of viruses in this world, could there be another virus that can eliminate the Covid-19 virus?Listen to this episode to find out!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

A couple of months back, I came down to a serious case of Covid-19/ Corona Virus, so I am really interested in the origin of the virus, why is Covid-19 different than the other flu-like disease, what was the origin, and what is the outlook for the future?So I have Alina Chan, a molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who came on to talk about a new book that he co-author with Matt Ridley, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She talked about her findings, what could be the origin of Covid-19, why is Covid-19 so much deadlier than the other flu-like diseases, and could it or could it not be engineered?We also talked about, what are the role of viruses in this world, could there be another virus that can eliminate the Covid-19 virus?Listen to this episode to find out!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook

Nick talks to genetic engineer Dr. Alina Chan about the ongoing mystery of the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss Alina's new book, "Viral: The Search For the Origin of COVID-19," which she co-wrote with science writer Matt Ridley. The book thoroughly documents the events, people, and developments relevant to COVID's origins. They discuss everything from the original SARS-1 epidemic in China, wildlife spillover vs. accidental lab leak hypotheses; pangolins, bats, and other potential intermediate host species; the SARS-CoV-2 genome; institutions and people like Francis Collins, the NIH, WHO, and EcoHealth Alliance; and whether or not we will likely solve this mystery. USEFUL LINKS:Download the podcast & follow Nick at his website[https://www.nickjikomes.com]Support the show on Patreon & get early access to episodes[https://www.patreon.com/nickjikomes]Sign up for the weekly Mind & Matter newsletter[https://mindandmatter.substack.com/]Athletic Greens, comprehensive daily nutrition (Free 1-year supply of Vitamin D w/ purchase)[https://www.athleticgreens.com/mindandmatter]Try MUD/WTR, a mushroom-based coffee alternative[https://www.mudwtr.com/mindmatter]Discount Code ($5 off) = MINDMATTEROrganize your digital highlights & notes w/ Readwise (2 months free w/ subscription)[https://readwise.io/nickjikomes/]Start your own podcast (get $20 Amazon gift card after signup)[https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1507198]Buy Mind & Matter T-Shirts[https://www.etsy.com/shop/OURMIND?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=1036758072§ion_id=34648633]Connect with Nick Jikomes on Twitter[https://twitter.com/trikomes]​​​Learn more about our podcast sponsor, Dosist[https://dosist.com/]ABOUT Nick Jikomes:Nick is a neuroscientist and podcast host. He is currently Director of Science & Innovation at Leafly, a technology startup in the legal cannabis industry. He received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University and a B.S. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/nickjikomes)

In Episode 219 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan. Alina is a Canadian molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Matt is a British science journalist who has written countless bestselling books on subjects ranging from evolution, to innovation, to genomic science. They are the co-authors of an electrifying new book titled “Viral” that grapples with the mystery of how Covid-19, a virus whose closest known relatives live in bats residing in subtropical southern China, somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometers away in the city of Wuhan, while leaving none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually create. Instead, nearly two years into this pandemic we're presented with a trail of evidence that increasingly points towards the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the so-called “Lab Leak Hypothesis” as the most plausible source of the outbreak. This is a critically important conversation to be having and Matt and Alina have made an invaluable contribution to it by working tirelessly and at great risk to themselves and to their careers in order to bring clarity to many of the facts and much of the evidence in support of the lab leak hypothesis—a theory that was consistently attacked and discredited by various actors, both wittingly and unwittingly, in the earliest days of the pandemic. We normally release the second half of our episodes for our subscribers only, but because of how important this conversation is and because of how much Matt and Alina have sacrificed in order to educate us all on the origins of Covid-19, we thought it was only right to do as much as we can to share as much of their work as possible. If you enjoy today's episode, please take a moment to write us a review on Apple Podcasts and consider being a premium subscriber, if you haven't already. There's no commitment. You can cancel at any time and the entire library of Hidden Forces subscriber content going all the way back to Episode 1 becomes instantly available to you, including the transcripts, and rundowns, to this episode and every other episode we've ever done. You can access the second part of this episode, as well as the transcript and rundown to this week's conversation through the Hidden Forces Patreon Page. All subscribers gain access to our premium feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application. If you enjoyed listening to today's episode of Hidden Forces you can help support the show by doing the following: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | CastBox | RSS Feed Write us a review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to our mailing list through the Hidden Forces Website Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Subscribe & Support the Podcast at https://patreon.com/hiddenforces Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod Follow Demetri on Twitter at @Kofinas Episode Recorded on 11/09/2021

Support the show by making a one time donation: https://www.patreon.com/DoubleAsteriskMedia Or donate via Cash App: $DAmedia2021 In Part 5 of Origins, we hear from Dr. Filippa Lentzos and Dr. Alina Chan who both spoke at an online conference about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus about pandemic investigations and the likelihood of a spillover in Wuhan, respectively. Then we hear again from Dr. Jonathan Latham who describes his phylogeographic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 related viruses and how they highlight that SARS-CoV-2 is a virus whose constituent parts all appear to come from Yunnan, China and the surrounding area. Thank you to Dr.'s Lentzos and Chan for their participation in the "What is the origin of Covid?" conference which can be viewed in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrHG9lWjZXLdiWDkf_cBSeg #lableak #covid-19 #coronavirus #wuhan #gainoffunction #fauci #drastic

What is the truth? The zoonotic hypothesis or the The Lab leak theory? Quotes below from CNN. Through much of 2021, the lab leak theory gained momentum. In March of this year, Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a career virologist, told Dr. Sanjay Gupta that he thinks Covid-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. WHO report's number of pages dedicated to the lab leak theory. "The total: annex and main report, for the laboratory (hypothesis) was about four pages out of 313 ... and in those four pages the title of the section was, 'Conspiracy Theories.' " Critics say that the WHO study was flawed even before the WHO team landed in Wuhan in January 2021. From the outset, the Chinese government had to agree to the terms of the WHO's study, including which scientists were selected to go to China, which locations would be visited, and what primary data could be accessed. Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard points out, "All of the original analyses had been done by Chinese scientists before the WHO came in." Will we ever know the complete truth of the Origins of the Covid 19 virus that has taken over the world? Why am I being told to "Trust the Science" when the scientists cannot even find the truth of the origin? Can we trust something if it is based upon a lie? This is just my opinion.

A special episode for those who have yet to reach total SARS-CoV-2 fatigue. Samuel meanders through various suspicions, clues, conflicts of interest, bad science, and secretive behaviours that have fuelled a small community of independent researches to attempt to pierce the obscurity around the origins of the pandemic. Here's the article published by Yuri Deigin referenced at length An extensive interview with Alina Chan

Support the show with a one time donation at: http://www.patreon.com/doubleasteriskmedia In part one of Origins: Birth of a Pandemic, we meet Dr. Jonathan Latham of the Bioscience Resource Project and Independentsciencenews.org. Dr. Latham talks about how he came to believe that it was likely that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID19, escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). We also hear that a network of independent researchers called D.R.A.S.T.I.C. came together to work towards to discover the true source of the virus, and in doing so, confirmed that the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 is actually a virus that Dr. Shi Zhengli of the WIV partially sequenced back in 2016, and further, that the virus is connected to a mystery pneumonia suffered by six men from Yunnan, China, back in 2012. Special Thanks to Nick Jikomes for use of his interview of Dr. Alina Chan from his podcast, Good Chemistry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuh1WNAW_rg #lableak #covid-19 #coronavirus #wuhan #gainoffunction #fauci #drastic

..1-Origini del Coronavirus. La comunità scientifica chiede all'Oms più trasparenza per fugare ogni dubbio. Intervista di Martina Stefanoni a Alina Chan tra i firmatari di una lettera apreta pubblica su..Science...2-Stati uniti, Joe Biden oggi nel Wisconsin per promuovere il piano da mille miliardi di dollari destinati alle infrastrutture. ( Roberto Festa) ..3- Facebook vince in tribunale la sua battaglia contro il governo federale. Secondo un giudice di Washington, Mark Zuckerberg non ha il monopolio sui social network controllando il 60% del mercato. ( Marco Schiaffino) ..4-Terre agricole. Accordo raggiunto sulla nuova politica agricola comune dell'Unione Europea...( Marta Gatti ) ..5-Sport e Politica: le magliette rosse per sfidare Pinochet. ( Adriana Panatta)

..1-Origini del Coronavirus. La comunità scientifica chiede all'Oms più trasparenza per fugare ogni dubbio. Intervista di Martina Stefanoni a Alina Chan tra i firmatari di una lettera apreta pubblica su..Science...2-Stati uniti, Joe Biden oggi nel Wisconsin per promuovere il piano da mille miliardi di dollari destinati alle infrastrutture. ( Roberto Festa) ..3- Facebook vince in tribunale la sua battaglia contro il governo federale. Secondo un giudice di Washington, Mark Zuckerberg non ha il monopolio sui social network controllando il 60% del mercato. ( Marco Schiaffino) ..4-Terre agricole. Accordo raggiunto sulla nuova politica agricola comune dell'Unione Europea...( Marta Gatti ) ..5-Sport e Politica: le magliette rosse per sfidare Pinochet. ( Adriana Panatta)

While the United States is now recovering from a year of death, disease, and economic destruction, we still don't know exactly where or how Covid-19 actually began. Molecular biologist Dr. Alina Chan has spent the last year investigating the true origins of the virus, long before it was politically convenient to do so.COVID-19 CoV Genetics - Global Lineage SurveillanceCoronavirus: Facebook Reverses Ban on Posts Claiming COVID-19 Came From Chinese Lab - South China Morning PostMore Questions Than Answers On Covid-19 Origin - The Mehdi Hasan ShowMany Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature - NPRGain of Function Research - Wikipedia24: Prescribing Optimism, with Dr. Monica Gandhi - The New Liberals26: Communicating Effectively, with Sarah Mojarad - The New Liberals@ayjchan----------Email: newliberalspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @NewLiberalsPod

In this episode, we look at the latest revelation a large number of influential scientists did not want to investigate the possibility of a lab leak from the Wuhan Lab of Virology. Why? Not because of science or factual information. Rather, these scientists did NOT want to look like they were supporting President Donald J. Trump.  Back in May of 2020, Dr. Alina Chan was pushing hard to get the scientific community to look into the Wuhan Lab. Rather than showing an interest in science, facts or information gathering, it made her a target of scientists looking to squash any talk that the pandemic could have originated from a lab. In fact, those scientists, without a shred of information, rushed to downplay the possibility, publishing a letter in The Lancet that cast such notions of a lab leak was "xenophobic" and "anti-vax." Vanity Fair recently reported The Lancet statement effectively ended the debate over Covid-19's origins before it began.  This is not science. This is, as former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said he believes the pandemic originated in the lab and that those who moved to shut down the lab leak theory were "very anti-science."  We went for another 12 months listening to the so-called scientific experts only to find they would rather allow their emotional hatred for a president prevent them from embracing the scientific method. They became willing stooges, perpetrating a lie embraced by top public health officials, the Democrat party and the mainstream media.  The episode wraps with a short clip from Arch Bishop Sheen about how communists have to remove God so the "state" can replace him. I ask the question, based on how the last 12 months have been orchestrated with a world-wide psyop, are we not seeing the fruits of what happens when citizens are made to believe the state is infallible and not to be questioned?  Be sure to like and follow The Alan Sanders Show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! And, try out my other podcasts, The Wilder Ride and The Marriage Fit Podcast. 

Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist and contributor to Vanity Fair. Her latest article is ”The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins.””You can't make a correction unless you know why something happened. So imagine—if this is a lab leak—the earth shattering consequences for virology. For the science community, for how research is done, for how research is regulated. Or if it is a zoonotic origin, we have to know how our human incursion into wild spaces could be unleashing these viruses. Because COVID-19 is one thing, but we're going to be looking at COVID-25 and COVID-34. We have to know what caused this.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @KatherineEban katherineeban.com Eban on Longform Eban on Longform Podcast 00:00 Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom (Ecco • 2019) 00:00 "The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins" (Vanity Fair • Jun 2021) 01:00 Nicholson Baker on Longform Podcast 01:00 "The Lab-Leak Hypothesis" (Nicholson Baker • New York Magazine • Jan 2021) 03:00 "The Plague Fighters: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before It Begins " (Evan Ratliff • Wired • Apr 2007) 12:00 @TheSeeker268 14:00 Eban's Vanity Fair archive 16:00 Eban's Twitter thread 26:00 Alina Chan on Twitter 32:00 "Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19" (Peter Daszak and many others • The Lancet • Feb 2020) 34:00 "Origin of Covid — Following the Clues" (Nicholas Wade • Medium • May 2021) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A year and a half into the pandemic, we still don’t know how it began. This week, a look at how investigating COVID-19’s origins became a political and scientific minefield. Plus, how a mistake of microns caused so much confusion about how COVID spreads. And, making sense of the "metaverse." 1. Alina Chan [@Ayjchan], postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, on the lack of investigation into COVID's origins. Listen. 2. Megan Molteni [@MeganMolteni], science writer at Stat News, on the 60-year-old mix-up that helped COVID-10 kill. Listen. 3. Gene Park [@GenePark], gaming reporter for The Washington Post, on what the "metaverse" really means. Listen. 4. Margaret Atwood [@MargaretAtwood], novelist, on submitting a manuscript to a library of the future. Listen. Music from this week's show: Sacred Oracle - John ZornEye Surgery - Thomas Newman   The Old House  - Marcos Ciscar Tomorrow Never Knows -  Quartetto d’ Archi Dell'orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi 72 Degrees and Sunny - Thomas NewmanViderunt Omnes - Kronos QuartetOnce in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

Nick talks to genetic engineer Alina Chan, PhD. She is working on engineering new forms of gene therapy using viral vectors to target diverse patient populations. In addition to her core scientific focus, Alina has recently investigated genomic data related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID19 pandemic.They discuss the basics of virus biology, including what kind of virus SARS-CoV-2 is and how it infects human cells. They also talked about the published research on this virus that has come out in the past year, Alina's recent investigations into the origins of this virus and why it's crucial for humanity to understand exactly how this virus originated, as well as new variants that have emerged, and where this virus might be going.USEFUL LINKS:Download the podcast & follow Nick at his website[www.nickjikomes.com]Support the show on Patreon & get early access to episodes[https://www.patreon.com/nickjikomes]Sign up for the weekly Mind & Matter newsletter[http://eepurl.com/hFlc7H]Try MUD/WTR, a mushroom-based coffee alternative[https://www.mudwtr.com/mindmatter]Discount Code ($5 off) = MINDMATTEROrganize your digital highlights & notes w/ Readwise (2 months free w/ subscription)[https://readwise.io/nickjikomes/]Start your own podcast (get $20 Amazon gift card after signup)[https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1507198]Buy Mind & Matter T-Shirts[https://www.etsy.com/shop/OURMIND?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=1036758072§ion_id=34648633]Connect with Nick Jikomes on Twitter[https://twitter.com/trikomes]​​​Learn more about our podcast sponsor, Dosist[https://dosist.com/]ABOUT Nick Jikomes:Nick is a neuroscientist and podcast host. He is currently Director of Science & Innovation at Leafly, a technology startup in the legal cannabis industry. He received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University and a B.S. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/nickjikomes)

Hi, joining me today on the podcast is Alina Chan, a Post Doctorate researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Alina has made headlines over the past year for being one of the advocates of investigating all plausible explanations of Covid-19. Specifically, she has drawn the ire and fury of some scientists and the Chinese government for suggesting that the pandemic could be the result of a lab leak from a virology lab in Wuhan. She talks today about the evidence that she and other scientists have found that suggests that the hypothesis might be true and why natural causes might not be as apparent an explanation as one may think. Take a listen and judge for yourself. 

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the prevailing wisdom from government officials and much of the scientific community is that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in an animal and at some point jumped to humans. The idea that it might have accidentally escaped from a lab has been widely dismissed as conspiracy theory, partly because it was easily conflated with inflammatory rhetoric coming out of the Trump administration. But plenty of scientists and policy have quietly taken the so-called "lab-leak hypothesis" seriously and now that the volume has been lowered on some of Trump's more dangerous distortions they're starting to talk about it.    Two experts that have been talking about it all along are Dr. Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, and Dr. Filippa Lentzos, a biosecurity expert and senior research fellow at King's College London. Together, they spoke with Meghan about what we do and don't know about the origins of the virus, why knowing the origins matters in the first place, and, above all, why people have such difficulty separating the idea of a deliberately released bioweapon, which no serious person has suggested, with the possibility of an unintentional lab spill-over, for which there is plenty of room for questions in this case.   Guest Bios:   Dr. Alina Chan is a recent Human Frontier Science Program fellow with 12+ years of research training in medical genetics, biochemistry, synthetic biology, and vector engineering. At the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Dr. Chan is currently researching next generation AAV vectors for human gene therapy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Chan began to investigate problems relevant to finding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and spearheaded the development of the COVID-19 CoV Genetics (covidcg.org) browser for scientists worldwide to rapidly track emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants by locations and date ranges of interest. Follow her on Twitter @ayjchan.   Filippa Lentzos, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, where she has a joint appointment in the Department of War Studies and the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine. She is also an Associate Senior Researcher within armament and disarmament program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a biosecurity columnist at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, an editor of the social science journal BioSocieties, and the NGO Coordinator for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Her May 5, 2020 article on the need for a credible investigation into the virus's origins appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. For more about her work see www.filippalentzos.com or follow her on twitter @FilippaLentzos.

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