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In response to several requests from our (wonderful) Patreon subscribers, we're unlocking this episode from behind the paywall. Consider subscribing at Patreon.com/KnowYourEnemy to never miss an episode. March 2025 marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the United States, when the federal government declared the arrival and spread of the novel coronavirus to be a national emergency. The official Covid death toll in the United States now stands at over 1.2 million; globally it surpasses 20 million people. Tens of millions of others were hospitalized, and many who survived infection are facing long Covid or related health complications. Our lives were upended, whether by sheltering-in-place, working from home, and barely leaving our home or apartment, or, for others, by endangering themselves by continuing to show up to work in hospitals, making deliveries, or staffing essential businesses. And yet, as David Wallace-Wells recently argued in the New York Times, "We tell ourselves we've moved on and hardly talk about the disease or all the people who died or the way the trauma and tumult have transformed us. But Covid changed everything around us."We wanted to have a conversation with David about that reality: why, collectively, we resist acknowledging what Covid really cost us, and the ways it continues to shape our lives. The discussion begins by revisiting the first weeks and months of the pandemic, the fear we felt, and the remarkable displays of solidarity that occurred in blue states as well as red states. From there we explore the different "phases" of the pandemic, how public-health measures became culture-war fodder, the impact of the vaccine on how both the public and elected officials perceived the risks of Covid, the pandemic's profound influence on our politics, the fallout from school closures, the Lab Leak Theory, and more.Listen again: "How to Survive a Pandemic" (w/ Peter Staley), Feb 21, 2021Sources:David Wallace-Wells, "How Covid Remade America," New York Times, Mar 4, 2025— "The Covid Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else," New York Times, Feb 26, 2025— "We've Been Talking About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis All Wrong," New York Times, Feb 28, 2023— "Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong'," New York Times, April 24, 2023David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth (2019)Nicholson Baker, "The Lab-Leak Hypothesis," New York Magazine, Jan 4, 2021Zeynep Tufekci, "We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives," NYTimes, Mar 16, 2025.Sam Adler-Bell, "Doctor Do-Little​: The Case Against Anthony Fauci," The Drift, Jan 24, 2021— "David Leonhardt: The Pandemic Interpreter," NYMag, Feb 24, 2022.Jacqueline Rose, "To Die One's Own Death," LRB, Nov 19, 2020.

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemyThis month marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the United States in March 2020, when the federal government declared the arrival and spread of the novel coronavirus to be a national emergency. The official Covid death toll in the United States now stands at over 1.2 million; globally it surpasses 20 million people. Tens of millions of others were hospitalized, and many who survived infection are facing long Covid or related health complications. Our lives were upended, whether by sheltering-in-place, working from home, and barely leaving our home or apartment, or, for others, by endangering themselves by continuing to show up to work in hospitals, making deliveries, or staffing essential businesses. And yet, as David Wallace-Wells recently argued in the New York Times, "We tell ourselves we've moved on and hardly talk about the disease or all the people who died or the way the trauma and tumult have transformed us. But Covid changed everything around us."We wanted to have a conversation with David about that reality: why, collectively, we resist acknowledging what Covid really cost us, and the ways it continues to shape our lives. The discussion begins by revisiting the first weeks and months of the pandemic, the fear we felt, and the remarkable displays of solidarity that occurred in blue states as well as red states. From there we explore the different "phases" of the pandemic, how public-health measures became culture-war fodder, the impact of the vaccine on how both the public and elected officials perceived the risks of Covid, the pandemic's profound influence on our politics, the fallout from school closures, the Lab Leak Theory, and more.Listen again: "How to Survive a Pandemic" (w/ Peter Staley), Feb 21, 2021Sources:David Wallace-Wells, "How Covid Remade America," New York Times, Mar 4, 2025— "The Covid Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else," New York Times, Feb 26, 2025— "We've Been Talking About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis All Wrong," New York Times, Feb 28, 2023— "Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong'," New York Times, April 24, 2023David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth (2019)Nicholson Baker, "The Lab-Leak Hypothesis," New York Magazine, Jan 4, 2021Zeynep Tufekci, "We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives," NYTimes, Mar 16, 2025.Sam Adler-Bell, "Doctor Do-Little​: The Case Against Anthony Fauci," The Drift, Jan 24, 2021— "David Leonhardt: The Pandemic Interpreter," NYMag, Feb 24, 2022.Jacqueline Rose, "To Die One's Own Death," LRB, Nov 19, 2020.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thestudiesshowpod.comIt's been five years since the start of the COVID pandemic (yes, you read that correctly—five years). And the debate still rages online—did the virus come from a wet market, maybe via a pangolin, or from a gain-of-function experiment in a biolab?In this paid-only episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart cover the lab leak hypothesis, and talk about what it means for how people should make their minds up about scientific controversies.To hear the full episode, read the show notes, and leave a comment, you'll need to be a paid subscriber on Substack. You can become one at www.thestudiesshowpod.com/subscribe.

The conversation covers a range of topics including military policy changes under Trump, economic policies focusing on tariffs versus income tax, reactions to advancements in AI technology, the reinstatement of military members discharged for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations, emotional appeals in the immigration debate, the role of Catholic Charities in immigration law, state responses to immigration policies, the lab leak hypothesis, and narratives surrounding sports and public perception.   00:00 Military Policy Changes and Immigration Enforcement 02:50 Economic Policies: Tariffs vs. Income Tax 06:03 AI Technology and Market Reactions 08:55 Reinstating Military Members and Immigration Flights 12:02 Emotional Appeals in Immigration Debate 14:59 Catholic Charities and Immigration Law 18:10 State Responses to Immigration Policies 20:55 Lab Leak Hypothesis and Government Accountability 24:02 Sports Narratives and Public Perception

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?

The guys discuss the recent developments in the Lab Leak Hypothesis, how we just learned much of what we knew about ancient Europeans was wrong, and how to out-conspiracy a conspiracy theorist.

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In this Sunday episode, Alex goes into a new report out of the Wall Street Journal that discusses that “The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.” While some may see this as vindication that the virus absolutely originated in a lab, Alex discusses why this news is more complicated. He notes that only the FBI and Department of Energy have sided with the lab over nature. Finally, Alex goes into why the Lab Leak Hypothesis seems to challenge Occam's Razor. 

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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

Where did SARS Coronavirus-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world, come from? Today, I interview Yuri Deigin, a biotech researcher, entrepreneur, and founding member of DRASTIC, to discuss the evidence that led him to believe there is a greater than ninety-percent chance that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology...

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

After careful analysis of the bombshell documents released last week to the public - most specifically the grant proposal from EcoHealth Alliance to DARPA for their "DEFUSE" project - we've determined that Dr. Peter Daszak has to be one of the evilest scientists of the past few decades. With the evidence that proves "The Lab Leak Hypothesis" is more of a conspiracy fact than a conspiracy theory, and we have undeniable evidence that The Wuhan Institute of Virology was literally spending tens of millions of dollars trying to make virus's more deadly, we have to ask, what kind of sick bastard would do this? Dr. Peter Daszak is that kind of a sick bastard, and Anthony Fauci is his willing accomplice. The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon and get exclusive episodes: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter: https://twitter.com/fedorachronicle

After careful analysis of the bombshell documents released last week to the public - most specifically the grant proposal from EcoHealth Alliance to DARPA for their "DEFUSE" project - we've determined that Dr. Peter Daszak has to be one of the evilest scientists of the past few decades. With the evidence that proves "The Lab Leak Hypothesis" is more of a conspiracy fact than a conspiracy theory, and we have undeniable evidence that The Wuhan Institute of Virology was literally spending tens of millions of dollars trying to make virus's more deadly, we have to ask, what kind of sick bastard would do this? Dr. Peter Daszak is that kind of a sick bastard, and Anthony Fauci is his willing accomplice. The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon and get exclusive episodes: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter: https://twitter.com/fedorachronicle

Justin Goodman, my guest on this episode of the Kerfuffle podcast, is Vice President of the White Coat Waste Project, a group that opposes taxpayer-funded scientific experimentation on animals.I’ve been a huge admirer of Justin and White Coat Waste for a long time, for reasons we get into in this episode. Our discussion is about animal rights, an issue I care about more deeply than just about any other. But we get into other subjects as well, which recent circumstances have made relevant to literally everyone on earth, such as Anthony Fauci’s history as the head of the NIH’s NIAID, where he continues to fund the torture of thousands of animals, and how that exploitation may have led to a lab accident in Wuhan that turned the world upside down.Some of the descriptions in this episode will be hard to listen to, but it’s a moral imperative that we know what’s going on behind these laboratory doors, paid for by our hard-earned tax dollars. It’s literally madness.—LW This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, we are going to talk about the first artificial heart transplant with the Aaeson device and the Covid-19 lab leak hypothesis. A surgical team at Duke University Hospital, led by Drs. Jacob Schroder and Carmelo Milano, successfully implanted a new-generation artificial heart in a 39-year-old man with heart failure, becoming the first center in North America to perform the procedure. On the other hand, the Lab Leak theory of COVID-19: a group of scientists - shifted the debate about the origins of COVID-19, they published a letter in the journal of science saying the lab-leak theory needs to be taken more seriously by the scientific community. Join us as we discuss more about these two interesting topics.   Cup of Nurses: https://fanlink.to/CONsite Frontline Warriors: https://fanlink.to/FWsite Youtube https://fanlink.to/CONYT Apple https://fanlink.to/Applepodcast Spotify https://fanlink.to/Spotifypodcast Cup of Nurses Store https://fanlink.to/CONshop Frontline Warriors store https://fanlink.to/FWshop Interested in Travel Nursing? https://fanlink.to/TravelNurseNow Free Travel Nursing Guide  https://fanlink.to/Travelnursingchecklist Nclex Guide https://fanlink.to/NCLEXguide Cup of Nurses FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/cupofnurses Frontline Warriors FB group https://fanlink.to/FWFBgroup   0:17 |  Introduction with the Hosts 1:28 | Affiliates/Updates 7:22 | Heart Failures 7:38 | Stages of Heart Failures 8:26 | Device/process use in heart transplant 11:41 | Lab-leak hypothesis 15:21 | Origin of Covid-19 16:10 | A virus that came from nowhere  19:17 | Conflict of interest 25:26 | Beijing is seeking to counter the hypothesis 31:11 |Top 5 Pandemic 31:24 | Human Mistake 32:17 | Closing thoughts

Good morning, and welcome to the 29th issue of the Bright Morning newsletter. Before we begin, we would like readers to consider the following quote from George Orwell's classic, 1984, and keep it in mind as we proceed through the recent events and cultural updates from the past couple of weeks. As you will see, it seems strikingly relevant - almost prophetic. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless Present in which the Party is always right.”| CULTUREIn Defence of Canada DayIn Critical Social Justice (CSJ - the formal name for “woke ideology''), nothing is off limits. Not even national holidays, which are supposed to be a time when individuals and communities can set aside their political differences and celebrate the common fortune of living in a free(ish) nation. Instead, for the woke acolytes, the intention is not to celebrate a nation, but to problematize and deconstruct its history into a series of “powerful versus oppressed” narrative games, all without realizing that there is no society in existence that can withstand scrutiny under the microscope of Social Justice. This is what happened with the recent attempt  to “cancel” Canada Day upon the discovery of several mass graves at the locations of former residential schools. For our American friends, residential schools were a series of mandatory boarding schools for indigenous children that operated during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Canada. These schools were rife with abuse (both physical and sexual), assault, and even murder. It is estimated that up to 30,000 indigenous children died at these schools. Thus, when mass graves were uncovered and the remains of over 1,000 indigenous children were found, it was a reminder that Canada does, in fact, have an ugly history. It is not clear how a society ought to react during a time like this. People grieve and mourn in different ways. However, while we might not know what to do, we can at least make assumptions about what not to do. And one of those assumptions might be that it is unwise to use historical atrocities as a battering ram to delegitimize (or to use the CSJ term, “decolonize”) the present. But this is exactly what unfolded in Canada at the end of June. In the weeks leading up to Canada Day, a small number of far-left activists, amplified by social media, made “Cancel Canada Day” trend online. Legacy media outlets (notably the Toronto Star and CBC) were falling over each other to declare how “systemically racist” we are as a nation. And some of the most unpleasant and violent activists did what they do best - destroying (or encouraging the destruction of) property that does not belong to them. This was exemplified with the toppling of a statue of Egerton Ryerson at Ryerson University and the burning of Christian and Catholic Churches (at least 8, to date) all with the nodding approval of journalists (an amalgamation of journalist and activist) at the CBC. The Prime Minister has been silent about this violence, of course. A quick question: are there historical precedents where citizens are permitted to use violence as a means for settling historic grievances? Any at all?If a person's media diet consisted of only legacy sources, such as the Toronto Star or CBC, he might be misled to believe that these actions are normal, acceptable, and supported by the majority of the public. But he would be wrong. According to recent polls, at least 86% of Canadians disagree with the idea of “canceling” the national holiday and instead prefer to honour their nation and its progress, even if its history contains some reprehensible actions. Even more telling is that this sentiment is stronger amongst non-white and immigrant Canadians. And so we are left with a situation in which a minority of wealthy, mostly-white, and metropolitan members of the Peloton class are attempting to skew the collective perception of our nation towards something that is untethered to reality. In a column from Rupa Subramanya, she aptly states the following:“For those of us who chose Canada, and didn't have the privilege of being born in one of the wealthiest, most advanced countries in the world, the notion of cancelling Canada Day seems truly bizarre. Many of us came from countries where racism and discrimination not only exist, but are often widespread, sanctioned by the state, and are realities of everyday life. Ask a non-Muslim living in the Arab world, where discrimination is baked into the system; or a Muslim in India, where, despite theoretical equality under the law, bigotry is pervasive, with the government often looking the other way. We need to compare Canada in the context of the real world, not compare it to a utopian ideal that has never existed and probably never will” (our emphasis). In other words, Canadians of all races and religions choose to celebrate Canada Day not because it is a perfect nation, but because the idea of Canada (and the West) is better than anything that has ever existed. And that idea is one that is predicated upon freedom, equality, and opportunity for all. Our nation might not have always lived up to that ideal, but progress is slow and steady. Thus, when we celebrate Canada Day, we are celebrating the progress our nation has made since its inception. We are celebrating the end of residential schools. We are celebrating the soldiers who died fighting real fascism. And we are celebrating the fact that other people across the world choose to see in us what the CSJ cult condemns us for wanting to see: that we are still a place where we can pursue the lives we want with a substantial degree of freedom.Jonathan Kay recently wrote that the CSJ cult “is unsustainable not just because no country can exist indefinitely without believing in its own worth, but because very few ordinary people share this belief system. And Canada Day itself is one of those few times of the year when ordinary folk actually wear their patriotism (or what passes for it in this country) on their sleeves.” Thus, to close out this section, we would like to wish a happy belated Canada Day to our Canadian audience and a happy belated Independence Day to our American audience. Do not be afraid to be grateful for living where you do. You are not settlers, you are citizens. Our history contains ugliness, but it also contains some of the best parts of human progress - all of which is worth knowing and understanding.| PUBLIC HEALTHThe Ivermectin DebateSilicon Valley is not morally or politically neutral. Tech companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube do not sit back and let individuals speak in a free and open manner, despite their insistence to the contrary. The idea of an “open marketplace of ideas,” where individuals and groups can speak and challenge each other to work towards the truth, is not the objective of these companies. Instead, tech giants restrict speech, and more often than not, they restrict speech to serve a narrative. This is why the Lab Leak Hypothesis was forbidden (literally) to discuss on Facebook until a couple of months ago. However, after the overwhelming evidence to support the hypothesis (including the Fauci emails) was revealed, Facebook stopped removing posts which discussed the lab leak. There are still some attempts to discredit the hypothesis, though, such as Stephen Colbert's tut-tutting during Jon Stewart's comedic rant about the potential lab leak.This is not new information, of course. But it is worth reiterating so that we can set up the framework and discuss the latest example of tech censorship: the Ivermectin debate. Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug used to treat infections, including river blindness, scabies, and head lice, among other ailments. It was created in 1975 and put into widespread circulation in 1981, with approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Because it has been in widespread circulation for over 40 years, it has since lost its patent - meaning that it is no longer a source of significant revenue for its manufacturer due to its common use. According to the evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, Ivermectin has been used over 2 billion times to treat various parasites with minimal adverse effects, thus confirming its relative safety and efficacy. Weinstein, along with the critical care physician, Dr. Pierre Kory, and the founder of mRNA technology, Dr. Robert Malone, have also been vocally supportive of preliminary research and anecdotal evidence claiming that Ivermectin might be a potential treatment and prophylactic for COVID-19. There was a podcast discussion on Weinstein's YouTube channel, but it has since been taken down by the platform. However, at the time of writing, a video of Weinstein speaking with the AI-researcher Lex Fridman about censorship and the Ivermectin debate is still available on YouTube. There is also an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify in which Weinstein and Kory talk about the potential benefits of Ivermectin. If the audience is looking for more context, then we recommend these two episodes.You would not know any of this with a quick Google search for Ivermectin. The top result is an FDA website which discusses the potential harms of taking “large doses” of Ivermectin as a potential treatment and prophylactic for COVID-19. Taking large doses of any drug seems unwise, but that is not what the debate is about. Instead, this debate is about whether or not we have a cheap and effective medicine that could be used to treat or prevent COVID. Of course, critics could suggest that the population already has access to free medicine within the vaccines, but that misses the point. Instead, consider the following argument: vaccine hesitancy exists because the COVID vaccines have been in circulation for less than one year. So, it is understandable how some people might feel uncomfortable or uneasy about the potential long-term adverse reactions (myocarditis and blood clotting being two notable examples). Then, there are the lies, half-truths, and data manipulation from our so-called public health experts over the past year and a half (which we have documented extensively). If we combine these two factors with the basic liberal argument for the right to refuse medicine and the right to informed consent - both of which are being undermined by the slow creep of vaccine passports - then we are left with a cocktail of mistrust for what was supposed to be a trusted authority (i.e. government and public health). So, if authorities truly want to eliminate all COVID cases, and there exists the chance of a cheap treatment and prophylactic for COVID that does not involve vaccination, then would it not be in everyone's best interest to explore this possibility? Are two choices not better than one? What if individuals who want to get vaccinated, get vaccinated, and individuals who choose to take Ivermectin (assuming its efficacy is confirmed), take Ivermectin? Why would research, conversation, and debate about this be denied? Could it be that there is no money attached to Ivermectin?For committing the sin of discussing Ivermectin - which has harmed no one - Weinstein now faces the prospect of losing his YouTube channel. Legacy media outlets are engaging in their usual hyperbole to suggest that the drug could be fatal. However, it looks like these censorship and disinformation strategies are not working as well as the tech giants might have hoped. This was exemplified by the liberal comedian, Bill Maher, condemning the tech giants on his show, Real Time with Bill Maher, stating that “YouTube should not be telling me what I can see about Ivermectin. Ivermectin isn't a registered Republican. It's a drug. I don't know if it works or not, and a lot of other doctors don't either.” So, at this time, we can at least be cautiously optimistic that there appears to be a mainstream interest in the debate, despite the censorship. And that is all that we want here: open research and open debate. We do not want to go down a road where public conversation is filtered through the moral and political lenses of Silicon Valley, whose ideological proclivities are several degrees to the left of a liberal arts college campus. Otherwise, we will be left with a culture that looks a lot like the George Orwell quote that we opened this article with. Unfortunately, our culture has been accelerating down that road for the past several years, but it is not too late. Reason can still prevail. It just requires a little civic courage and a commitment to free speech and the pursuit of truth. The truth, after all, is nothing more than the culmination of infinite debate.| EXTRASFurther Listening 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The theory that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab was considered a debunked conspiracy theory, but some experts are revisiting it amid calls for a new, more thorough investigation. Paul Thacker explains the dramatic U turn and the role of contemporary science journalism. Click HERE for the full article. GUEST: Paul D. Thacker, Freelance Journalist for the British Medical Journal and a Former Investigator for the U.S. Senate and Safra Ethics Center at Harvard - A University of Ottawa professor has discovered one of the few benefits of the pandemic schooling that had Ontario children physically distanced, closely supervised and restricted from mixing much with other kids. She has been investigating the intractable problem of bullying among children for a decade and says the rates of students who are either victims or perpetrators have remained stable. But a survey she conducted among 6,578 students at a large urban school board in southern Ontario in September, October and November 2020 found striking changes. The survey found that 39.5 per cent of students said they were victims of bullying last fall compared to 59.8 per cent who said they had experienced bullying before the pandemic. GUEST: Tracy Vaillancourt, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Violence Prevention in Schools, and a Full Professor in Counseling Psychology at the University of Ottawa - The pandemic has upended many long-held beliefs about flexible work arrangements. Labour experts say the past 14 months have provided a glimpse into the impact of remote and hybrid work hours on a massive scale. Increasingly, managers are evaluating the benefits of condensed workweeks as a tool for improving efficiency, retaining current employees and enticing new hires. In early July, results from the world's largest study of a four-day workweek were released, based on a four-year trial in Iceland by 2,500 public service workers. It concluded that productivity in Icelandic offices, hospitals and police stations either remained constant or was boosted. Zorra Ontario's experiment, meanwhile, is modelled after a larger, pioneering four-day work week trial in Guysborough, N.S., that ran last year and was adopted as a policy in April. GUEST: Vik Singh, Assistant Professor of Global Management Studies with the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ok listener, this is the big question: did the SARS-CoV-2 virus - you know, the goddamn bug that's making Australians wear masks even now - leak from a lab in Wuhan? Ok I lied. That's not even the big question. The big question is not whether it SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab leak, but whether research like that was opening dangerous doors... The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!

Deputy editor of New York magazine and author David Wallace-Wells to talk about the new evidence for the so-called "Lab-Leak hypothesis" and about the possible origins of Covid-19. Wallace-Wells introduces the new research done by Jesse D. Bloom on possible missing tranches of genetic sequencing data from Chinese servers, and the discussion turns to what we know, don't know, can't know, and might know about the origins of Covid . . . and where that leaves us for the next pandemic. Resources: "Understanding the Origins of SARS-CoV-2" (June 14; Fred Hutch News Service) "Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 pandemic" by Jesse D. Bloom (June 22) "Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins" by James Gorman and Carl Zimmer (June 14, New York Times) "The Lab-Leak Hypothesis" by Nicholson Baker (Jan. 4, New York magazine) "Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?" by Rowan Jacobsen (Sept. 9, 2020, Boston Magazine) "We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time" by David Wallace-Wells (Dec. 7, 2020, New York magazine) "The Implications of the Lab-Leak Hypothesis" by David Wallace-Wells (June 12, New York magazine) Guest: David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells), Deputy Editor, New York magazine; author, The Uninhabitable Earth Host: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Credits: Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer As the Biden administration gears up, we'll help you understand this unprecedented burst of policymaking. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter. The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production. Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We spoke to a clinical pathologist and the assistant director of the clinical virology lab at University of Washington Medical Center. The topic this week is the lab leak hypothesis - which has recently seen a revival in public discussion. ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Vaccine Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/VaccinePodcast / https://twitter.com/vaccinepodcast Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by Max Mulder (http://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com) & Nick Sena (http://nicksenamusic.com) SOURCES: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1 https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-through-the-lens-of-gain-of-function-research-f96dd7413748 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-man-made-491053 https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_origin_of_COVID-19 https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/09/alina-chan-broad-institute-coronavirus/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-epidemic-draws-scrutiny-to-labs-handling-deadly-pathogens-11583349777 https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-did-not-start-at-wuhan-wet-market.html https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/covid-19-lab-leak-natural-market-theory-conspiracy-theory-1176213/ https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part3 https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/why-covid-lab-leak-theory-wuhan-shouldnt-dismissed-column/4765985001/ https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210217/The-origin-of-SARS-CoV-2-furin-cleavage-site-remains-a-mystery.aspx https://www.newsweek.com/controversial-wuhan-lab-experiments-that-may-have-started-coronavirus-pandemic-1500503

In this 84th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens—now for the first time live on Odysee! In this episode, we discuss chapter 1 of our forthcoming book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, and read an excerpt on culture and consciousness, and the need for generalists in a hyper-specialized world. Bret then introduces a new term: Asch-troturfing, to help explain some of the problems on social media (and beyond). We briefly discuss a new meta-analysis that reviews the evidence for the efficacy of Ivermectin as both prophylaxis and treatment for Covid-19. We discuss the perils of the politicizing of science, and also the perils of bringing market forces directly into contact with scientific endeavors, as the grant-university pipeline in the U.S. has done for many decades now. We discuss what science is, and how varied it can look. We mock PolitiFact for its absurdity. And we read a few excerpts from Nineteen-Eighty-Four, in honor of this moment in time, and this being episode #84.Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, is now available for pre-sale at amazon. Publication date: 9-14-21: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593086880/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_5BDTABYFKRJKZBT5GSQAhttp://huntergatherersguide.com/DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.orgFind more from us on Bret's website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather's website (http://heatherheying.com).Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon.Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret's Paypal.Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Here are some, updated frequently: @DarkHorse Podcast ClipsTheme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.Q&A Link: https://odysee.com/EvoLensQaA84:a7a639064b2a62e6d211091259b447dd4c9e77e6 Mentioned in this episode: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: https://huntergatherersguide.com Weinstein, B. 2021. Why We Should Welcome the Lab Leak Hypothesis. Unherd, published June 5, 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/ Heying, H.  2021. What If We're Wrong? Areo, published May 19, 2021: https://areomagazine.com/2021/05/19/what-if-were-wrong/ Taibbi, M. 2021. Why Has "Ivermectin" Become a Dirty Word? TK News, Substack, published June 18, 2021. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/why-has-ivermectin-become-a-dirty-7bd Taibbi, M. 2021. Meet the Censored: Bret Weinstein. TK News, Substack, published June 19, 2021. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-bret-weinstein Jon Stewart talks lab leak on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8 Bryant, A., Lawrie, T.A., Dowswell, T., Fordham, E.J., Scott, M., Hill, S.R. and Tham, T.C., 2021. Ivermectin for prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection: a systematic review, meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis to inform clinical guidelines: https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Abstract/9000/Ivermectin_for_Prevention_and_Treatment_of.98040.aspx Krylov, A.I., 2021. The Peril of Politicizing Science. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(22), pp.5371-5376. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01475Dougherty, M. 2021. The Fall of Saint Anthony Fauci. National Review, published May 27, 2021: https://www.nationalreviewSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein)

We spoke to a clinical pathologist and the assistant director of the clinical virology lab at University of Washington Medical Center. The topic this week is the lab leak hypothesis - which has recently seen a revival in public discussion. Thanks for supporting us on patreon! The Vaccine Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/VaccinePodcast / https://twitter.com/vaccinepodcast Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by Max Mulder (http://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com) & Nick Sena (http://nicksenamusic.com) SOURCES: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1 https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-through-the-lens-of-gain-of-function-research-f96dd7413748 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-man-made-491053 https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_origin_of_COVID-19 https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/09/alina-chan-broad-institute-coronavirus/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-epidemic-draws-scrutiny-to-labs-handling-deadly-pathogens-11583349777 https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-did-not-start-at-wuhan-wet-market.html https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/covid-19-lab-leak-natural-market-theory-conspiracy-theory-1176213/ https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part3 https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/why-covid-lab-leak-theory-wuhan-shouldnt-dismissed-column/4765985001/ https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210217/The-origin-of-SARS-CoV-2-furin-cleavage-site-remains-a-mystery.aspx https://www.newsweek.com/controversial-wuhan-lab-experiments-that-may-have-started-coronavirus-pandemic-1500503

-Getting tased on the boardwalk for vaping: is this what the anti-vape zealots want? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/14/ocean-city-police-vaping-video-boardwalk/ -Jon Stewart brings us real comedy on the Lab Leak Hypothesis and Stephen Colbert crumbles INTERVIEW: Ali Rizvi (@MCrizvi) -The CDC's mask policy for 2-year-olds has real consequences. Ali Rizvi knows, because he was kicked off a flight when his toddler couldn't keep his mask on -Are we basing this on science or theater? -Do any people in public health have kids and understand that toddlers don't mask up? Ali I. Rizvi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, Emmy nominated creative currently based out of D.C. Rizvi tells nonfiction and fiction stories of diversity from around the world. -El Salvador and #Bitcoin -In defense of all-inclusive resorts Broadcast on Sauga 960AM and Big Talker 106.7FM. Radio: https://sauga960am.ca Radio: http://bigtalkerfm.com Website: http://consumerchoiceradio.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/HgZ2Cj10XTM Write to us: hello@consumerchoiceradio.com Need a VPN to mask your online surfing? Use our affiliate code: https://consumerchoiceradio.com/vpn ***PODCAST*** Apple: http://apple.co/2G7avA8 Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3iXIKIS Produced by the Consumer Choice Center: https://consumerchoicecenter.org Support the show: http://consumerchoicecenter.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss the latest developments in the search for the origins of COVID19 and the dramatic turn the quest has taken with the Wall Street Journal article, "The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak..." by By Steven Quay and Richard Muller. There are "genetic fingerprints" that prove this virus was taken from nature and modified in the lab. And the reason why people around the world became sick or even died because of an accident? And the people who are responsible for all this death and economic ruin are the same people who control the narrative. The biggest news story of your life continues to be stranger than science fiction. And if conspiracy theorists are right about this, what else are they (or we) right about, too?

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss the latest developments in the search for the origins of COVID19 and the dramatic turn the quest has taken with the Wall Street Journal article, "The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak..." by By Steven Quay and Richard Muller. There are "genetic fingerprints" that prove this virus was taken from nature and modified in the lab. And the reason why people around the world became sick or even died because of an accident? And the people who are responsible for all this death and economic ruin are the same people who control the narrative. The biggest news story of your life continues to be stranger than science fiction. And if conspiracy theorists are right about this, what else are they (or we) right about, too?

Hello, and welcome back to the Bright Morning newsletter. In case you missed it last week, we released our fifth long-form podcast discussion. In that episode, we spoke about the province of Ontario, vaccine passports, and we responded to what we believe was some rather disingenuous criticism of our work. It was a fun and light-hearted conversation - a nice shake-up from our usual style. Having said that, this week we were greeted with some stories that, among other things, were not that surprising. Instead, the events that transpired over the past week or so felt more like confirmation of what we have suspected all along: public health bureaucracies, in Canada and in America, have not been giving it to us straight. We have two case studies below to highlight how the faces of these institutions are more likely to dig in their heels and stick to the narrative, instead of demonstrating humility, when being confronted with evidence of their errors.| PUBLIC HEALTHOntario: science vs. The Science™Before we kick off, we need to establish the difference between science and The Science™. Science, as we have mentioned before, is a process that relies upon empiricism to test hypotheses and establish provisional truths. One of the core tenets of science is that we welcome new evidence if it disproves what we have all come to accept as truth, so long as the new evidence is subjected to the same, rigorous testing (or better). In other words, science must be falsifiable, otherwise it is no longer science, but dogma. The Science™, however, is dogma. It is the rigid, prescriptive, and often-wrong “solutions” or narratives that politicians and bureaucrats (who we once called “public health experts”) use to dismiss scientific evidence for some personal, reputational, or financial gain. So, when you hear a politician or bureaucrat utter the words “I am following the science” or “I believe in science,” it is unlikely that he is speaking about his commitment to the scientific method and empiricism. Instead, he is hanging onto The Science™ (his narrative) as if it is a life raft that is running out of air in the middle of an ocean storm. This brings us to the most recent update in Ontario, or as we like to refer to it, The Peoples' Republic of Lockdown. After once again outsourcing his leadership to unelected bureaucrats by seeking “consensus” on whether or not schools are safe (they are), Premier Doug Ford announced that children will not be returning to in-person learning until September. In his speech to the public in which he attempted to justify this decision, Ford uttered some remarks that were either misleading or outright false. So, allow us to provide the fact check.First, Ford stated that he did not “want to risk the health of our kids.” Schools are safe and children are safe in them. For the past several months, virtually every pediatrician and pediatric organization in Ontario has been begging Ford to open schools for in-person learning. Sick Kids Hospital wrote a letter in response to Ford's search for “consensus” and stated that school closures facilitate a “substantial deterioration of mental health status among children and youth,” and that this “deterioration is now evident in the form of increased ambulatory care use and hospital admissions, most poignantly for children and youth with eating disorders.” Dr. Martha Fulford, Chief of Medicine at McMaster University Medical Centre, also appeared on CTV News to state that children “are not at risk from Covid,” even when accounting for the overhyped “variants of concern.” When faced with this criticism, David Fisman - one of the most vocal bureaucrats on the Ontario Science Table (OST) and a paid teachers' union expert - did not counter with evidence, but deflected to a conspiracy theory in which he accused Sick Kids of being in bed with the PC Party (makes sense?) and then turned to a sarcastic remark about kids' mental health. Ford also stated that he is “really concerned about putting all of the kids in the classroom” and that having children in the classroom will lead to “thousands of new cases.” Regarding the first comment, Ford did not explain why he is “really concerned.” In fact, his own Chief Medical Officer, David Williams, has confirmed there are “very few” examples of in-class transmission. As for the second comment, Ford's OST said that a return to in-person learning would create an 11% surge in cases, at most. However, given that the OST has been completely and entirely wrong in all of their predictions and modeling (here is the most recent error in their predictions), it is hard to take anything that they say seriously.Oh, did we mention that the entire premise of lockdowns are also in contention with (if not direct opposition to) scientific consensus? We have been arguing this for months, but here is Martin Kuldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard, confirming this argument. It is not unreasonable for us to suggest that Doug Ford and the OST are, at this point in the game, anti-science. They are using The Science™ to shield themselves from criticism and ignore real evidence. But why? What is to be gained here? Well, for starters, it is entirely possible that the members of the OST enjoy the attention. Throughout the pandemic, these Covid celebrities and TV doctors have become the de facto leaders of the province. They appear on television daily to offer predictions that keep proving to be wrong. It is also unlikely that they are not being generously reimbursed for their time, either. Then, there are perks attached to their position. For example, Dr. Michael Warner - another lockdown zealot - was given tickets to a Maple Leafs game with his friends, only to fear monger about a fourth wave just a few days later. Status, prestige, and massive financial incentives are hard to give up, and so is it that much of a surprise why these bureaucrats want to drag out lockdowns for as long as possible?The Fauci EmailsLast week, through a freedom of information request submitted by Buzzfeed, over ten thousand emails belonging to the inbox of Dr. Anthony Fauci was released to the public. The findings within these emails were, to say the least, explosive. A common theme within them was that what Fauci had been saying behind the scenes bore almost no resemblance to what he had been saying to the public. The first example pertained to everyone's favourite subject: mask usage. Last year, we might recall that Fauci initially stated that masks were “not that effective.” Then, a month or two later, he said that masks are critical to stopping the transmission of Covid. When asked about this sudden change in tune, he said that the science had changed. Fauci then doubled-down (literally) on his insistence for masks by suggesting that Americans ought to wear two masks. When asked for evidence about this, he said it was “just common sense.” But was it?Masks, according to Fauci's emails, are not that effective for keeping out the virus, which is small enough to pass through the material. However, Fauci did argue that there might be a benefit for an infected person to wear a mask, should they cough or sneeze, but aside from this slight caveat, Fauci's emails confirm what most people have been arguing since last year.Next in the lineup of Fauci's emails pertained to what legacy media, public health, and politicians had been vehemently dismissing as a conspiracy theory since March 2020: The Lab Leak Hypothesis. We spoke about this two weeks ago, but the short version is that there is strong evidence to support the claim that SARS-CoV-2 was developed in a lab, as opposed to being a bat-borne virus that jumped to humans. Fauci, however, has been adamantly opposed to this hypothesis, even going so far as to suggest that it is not worth investigating. Well, once again, we can see that what Fauci really believes - that is, what he says when no one else is watching - bears no resemblance to the words in his public appearances. There were several emails from high-profile researchers warning Fauci that the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 looks like it could have been engineered, instead of being a product of nature. At the same time, Fauci received emails from researchers - one of whom belonged to the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Science - thanking him for downplaying the possibility of a lab spillover during his press conferences. Now, it is fair to say Fauci himself did not give credence to the Lab Leak Hypothesis in these emails, but it does, at the very least, confirm his dishonesty with the public, because we now have evidence that he received fair and substantiated warnings from his associates about the plausibility of such a theory. Then, we stumbled into the biggest bombshell of them all - the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 could have been the product of Fauci's own research funding. Several of Fauci's emails made reference to so-called gain of function research, where scientists work to make viruses more transmissible and deadly (ideally to advance vaccine development). According to the emails, Fauci's own National Institute of Health (NIH) was involved in the funding of gain of function research, possibly at the Wuhan Institute of Virology - the very lab from which the virus is believed to have leaked. However, it was no less than three weeks ago when Fauci denied having any knowledge of this during his testimony to Senator Rand Paul. What does all of this mean?What do the anti-evidence positions of the OST and Fauci's emails have in common? Do they suggest that we are ruled by evil, malicious people, who wish to do us harm? This seems unlikely. Consider this: before the pandemic started, no one knew who Dr. Fauci or any members of the OST were. Do fame and recognition automatically amount to good work? Absolutely not. However, starting in March 2020, these people were on our televisions and computers so much that they might as well have been our screensavers. Thus, we had the opportunity to witness their abilities as scientists, leaders, and advisers in real time. In other words, we could see if their ability to perform in these roles was worth the high salaries they were earning throughout the years, and in some cases, decades (salaries that are funded through tax dollars, mind you). Is this what we saw? Far from it. Instead, what we saw was a consistent and insistent pattern of lies, half-truths, political pandering, flip-flopping, and most egregious of all, a refusal to welcome new evidence. Take, for example, the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). This was a worldwide call from some of the most well-respected scientists, doctors, and researchers in the world to end lockdowns. According to Martin Kuldorff, who we mentioned earlier, “there was never a scientific consensus for lockdowns.” Lockdowns were supposed to be a temporary measure to buy time for hospitals so that we could prepare for a potential influx of infected patients. However, as we have all learned by now, if you give an inch, they will take a mile. As Kuldorff stated, “instead of understanding the pandemic, we were encouraged to fear it. Instead of life, we got lockdowns and death. We got delayed cancer diagnoses, worse cardiovascular-disease outcomes, deteriorating mental health, and a lot more collateral public-health damage.” Worst of all, our leaders refused to acknowledge the countries and regions, such as Sweden and Taiwan, that kept the pandemic under control, despite never being locked down. Faced with this new evidence, Kuldorff and his colleagues co-authored the GBD to show that lockdowns were not, and should not, be the appropriate response to the virus. But it was ignored. Furthermore, those who questioned the scientific justification for lockdowns, both inside and outside of the scientific community, were excommunicated and labeled as “conspiracy theorists,” “murderers,” and in some cases, “Nazis.” The example of the GBD shows that the faces of public health were more concerned about their reputations than they were basing their decisions on new and incoming evidence. This is why fifteen months after the pandemic started, public health bureaucrats, like Fauci and the OST, continue to act as if we do not know what the virus is or how it spreads. It also explains why the industrial-strength fear-mongering surrounding the virus has reached its peak in Ontario, despite the third wave of Covid being the least deadly. However, when faced with this evidence, public health attributes it to lockdowns, even though cases have decreased as mobility has increased. To close, what we are seeing with the OST and Dr. Fauci is not good leadership or good science, but the expected actions of institutional bureaucrats who are attempting to save face. Their failures might have gone unnoticed in their roles before the pandemic, but now they are on display for the world. Their raising of the rhetoric in recent weeks is nothing more than an attempt to drown out the justified screams from a population who has been duped. It is unlikely that they will leave the public eye quietly, but when they do, they will have left in their place a legacy of colossal mistrust towards the political and expert classes. And if they have any humility left, can they truly be surprised?| EXTRASFurther ListeningThis week, we encourage the audience to listen to Jordan Peterson as he interviews Yeonmi Park. The following description has been provided by Peterson's YouTube channel and podcast:Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and human rights activist trying to shine a light on the atrocities still being committed in North Korea by the current Kim regime. She wrote her experiences into a bestseller, “In Order to Live.” She tells stories of her childhood and escaping to remind the world of how terrible things are for North Koreans. She also discusses her escape, her slavery in China, and the frustration and disappointment she experiences pursuing a humanities degree at Columbia.If there was ever a conversation that needed to be heard, this would be it. Tyranny, Slavery and Columbia U | Yeonmi Park | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - S4: E26Until next week, thank you for your time. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightmorning.substack.com

If you looked at the mainstream media this morning, you'd think they'd been covering the possibility of COVID originating in a Chinese lab leak from the beginning. Luckily, unlike the Left, we've been paying attention and have the receipts. Then, the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh joins to tell the story of how he tried to save Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's grandmother, only to be stopped by uber-progressive AOC herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spoke with FDD's Emily de La Bruyère about the latest news around China, including the historic (or not-so-historic) shift to a three-child policy. The post The Lab Leak Hypothesis, the U.S. China Bill, and More appeared first on Octavian Report.

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from June 5, 2021, with Jen Pan filling in for Nando. Thomas Frank joins us to talk about the "lab-leak" theory, why it's appealing to a large number of people, media coverage, and its political and social implications. We also cover the homelessness crisis sweeping the country and how the Left needs to respond to mass deprivation. Read Thomas Frank's latest: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/01/wuhan-coronavirus-lab-leak-covid-virus-origins-china Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

The Homemade Broadcast this week: Check out the HMBradio Store and get a hat or something! What a difference a week makes, the "Lab Leak Hypothesis" went from weird fringe conspiracy to hotly contested theory to looks like this virus may be engineered in China in just a few days. Anna and I come up with a solution to your problems- just lie about everything. Get in touch with the show and leave a voice or text message at: (813) 693-2124 The #HMB airs Sunday's on Sunshine FM 96.7 in downtown St. Petersburg & anywhere in the world at Radio St. Pete @ 6:10PM & Monday's at 10:15PM or on demand via your favorite podcast app, just search "HMBradio Tampa Bay". Tune into The Johnny B Show every weeknight from 9 to midnight on 102.5 The Bone. If you're enjoying the podcast, please give it a 5 STAR rating on your podcast app, it only takes a second and really helps out. If you're REALLY enjoying it, consider making a DONATION, thanks and I like you more than a friend. Follow the show and EVERYWHERE Thanks to our sponsors: Truvy Salon & Spa Homemade Podcasts: "Reach clients through Podcasting"

In this 82nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, is now available for pre-sale at amazon. Publication date: 9-14-21: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593086880/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_5BDTABYFKRJKZBT5GSQA http://huntergatherersguide.com/ DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org Find more from us on Bret's website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather's website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret's Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Here are some, updated frequently: @DarkHorse Podcast Clips Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/uwSPPG0JX5M Mentioned in this episode:A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: https://huntergatherersguide.comThe American Rocketry Challenge: https://rocketcontest.org/Weinstein, B. 2021. Why We Should Welcome the Lab Leak Hypothesis. Unherd, published June 4, 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/PowerPoint of graphs of Covid rates and fatalities, before and after widespread introduction of Ivermectin, in Mexico, India, Panama, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic: https://www.dropbox.com/s/28oa0byp3k0j9g2/GRAPHS%20OF%20IVERMECTIN%20COUNTRY%20USAGE%20-%20DHP%20ep83.pdf?dl=0FLCCC (Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance): https://covid19criticalcare.comMerino, J., Borja, V.H., Lopez, O., Ochoa, J.A., Clark, E., Petersen, L. and Caballero, S., 2021. Ivermectin and the odds of hospitalization due to COVID-19: evidence from a quasi-experimental analysis based on a public intervention in Mexico City. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/r93g4/Not mentioned, but alluded to: Sulloway, F.J., 2021. Darwin and the Galapagos giant tortoises. In Galapagos Giant Tortoises (pp. 83-95). Academic Press. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128175545000101Scheim, D., 2021. Five RCTs recently published in mainstream scientific journals that confirm major, statistically significant benefits of ivermectin against COVID-19 as reported in several prior RCTs. https://osf.io/qru8k/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein)

Julie and Liz talk about the Fauci emails, the covid lab leak hypothesis and the latest Jan. 6 developments

Topics include: Clip 1. Aesop's Fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf;” who the boy is in the lab leak hypothesis media story; a dictionary definition of hypothesis and theory; should we really trust fact-checkers and social media outlets to decide what the truth is?; why the Founders were so smart to make Freedom of the Press an essential right; why the argument that Facebook and other social media companies aren't governments so they can't censor doesn't make sense for the times we live in: why such arguments are similar to right-wing arguments using the Founders perspective to argue for the right to own crazy-ass guns; why the politicization of the Coronavirus crisis has been so costly; how advocacy journalism in the Trump era created the conditions to get the lab leak hypothesis story wrong; why media outlets are losing credibility; my 2020 mantra and why it's an effective antidote to these times; the certainty is arising from the fear; why have progressives rehabilitated the “boys who cried wolf” over WMDs 20 years ago?; why that experience 20 years ago raised my suspicions this time; maybe the solution isn't more censorship, but less crying wolf by the media. Clip 2.: Heather Heying's useful frame for understanding how we limit discussions such as racism and Covid-19; Bret and Heather discuss the danger of the virus of fear; “fear enhances our ability to see things in a binary way” Clip 3.: Using the cycles of the seasons as a frame o understand why we should do our best to be asking questions as though we are a child, rather than standing on the top of Mt. Self Righteous shouting “The Truth;” the evolutionary astrological lens of the cycle of the nodes of the moon and why it can help us survive the Information War; “intellectual authoritarianism" and more! Links The Meriam-Webster.com distinction between hypothesis and theory page The Dark Horse Podcast, Episode 82 "Dodging the Buzz Saw" (May 30, 2021) The Dark Horse Podcast, "COVID, Ivermectin and the Crime of the Century" (June 2, 2021) Contact Me Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.winchell2/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBandPRealmPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BandPRealmPod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true

The Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis Goes Mainstream. Chris Holm from 'Conspire a Theory' returns with Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk to discuss how President Joe Biden and other politicians on The Left, The Main Stream Media, and many prominent scientists who initially panned the Lab Leak Hypothisys are now its most prominent proponents. How did this crazy conspiracy theory gain legitimacy, and why? Could it be that the taint from Donald Trump and his advocacy of this theory has worn off, and it's now safe to talk about the lab leak without hurting reputations? Is there a chance that there is new proof that makes The Lab Leak Hypothesis more plausible such as newly released reports about the systemic problems at the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Or that more people are willing to talk about containment problems that occurred there? Or is it the Zoonotic origin story about how this virus originated at Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market - coincidentally located across the street from the Wuhan Institute of Virology where gain-of-function were experiments performed - is the dumbest and insulting theory about covid-19 origins, and the world realizes that we've been lied to by people such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak who were duplicitous from the very beginning and were lying to cover their own tracks?

Chris Holm from 'Conspire a Theory' returns with Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk to discuss how President Joe Biden and other politicians on The Left, The Main Stream Media, and many prominent scientists who initially panned the Lab Leak Hypothisys are now its most prominent proponents. How did this crazy conspiracy theory gain legitimacy, and why? Could it be that the taint from Donald Trump and his advocacy of this theory has worn off, and it's now safe to talk about the lab leak without hurting reputations? Is there a chance that there is new proof that makes The Lab Leak Hypothesis more plausible such as newly released reports about the systemic problems at the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Or that more people are willing to talk about containment problems that occurred there? Or is it the Zoonotic origin story about how this virus originated at Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market - coincidentally located across the street from the Wuhan Institute of Virology where gain-of-function were experiments performed - is the dumbest and insulting theory about covid-19 origins, and the world realizes that we've been lied to by people such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak who were duplicitous from the very beginning and were lying to cover their own tracks? Show Page: https://thefedorachronicles.com/podcast/2021/2021-05-27-lab-leak-mainstream.html The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter: https://twitter.com/fedorachronicle The Fedora Chronicles Parler https://parler.com/#/user/FedoraChronicles The Fedora Chronicles on Telegram https://t.me/fedorachronicles

Today on the show we meander aimlessly for a bit through the news of the week before playing your favorite podcast game show! It's Wack Shit or Wacky Shit—Men's Grooming Products Edition. Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Also, head over to the website for a show note with links relevant to today's discussion.08:30 -- How the Candy Industrial Complex gets you13:15 -- Trump expects to be reinstated...as president...by mid-August...because.17:14 -- Naomi Osaka vs. Sports Media, and doing things that everyone knows kinda actually sucks37:04 -- More on the Lab-Leak Hypothesis and the surrounding discourse45:04 -- The Immaterial Sculpture46:02 -- Somebody's very mad at the Coca Cola corporation49:50 -- Wack Shit or Wacky Shit

Matt and Dara are joined by Vox's Dylan Matthews to talk about the so-called "lab-leak" hypothesis for the origin of SARS-CoV-2, and to contrast it with the zoonotic origin theory. They discuss the potential policy consequences that ought to result if it turns out that either hypothesis is true, and talk a little bit about whether the global standards for virological research need to be revised. Then, some research is examined that casts "Voter ID" laws in a new light, and leads to some very interesting conversation about how the media should confront authentic challenges to American democratic governance. Resources: "The Lab-Leak Theory" by David Leonhardt (May 27, New York Times) "The Biological Weapons Convention at a crossroad" by Bonnie Jenkins (Sept. 6, 2017; Brookings) Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham (Simon & Schuster; 2019) "The NPT [Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty]: Learning from a Longtermist Success" by Danny Bressler (May 19, Effective Altruism) White paper: "Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2018," by Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons (May 22; The Quarterly Journal of Economics) "After Dramatic Walkout, a New Fight Looms Over Voting Rights in Texas" by Dave Montgomery and Nick Corasaniti (May 31, New York Times) Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration Reporter, ProPublica Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), Senior Correspondent, Vox Credits: Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer As the Biden administration gears up, we'll help you understand this unprecedented burst of policymaking. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter. The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production. Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Keith “KO Kid” Berry is a former MMA fighter and current Cannabis and Cryptocurrency Entrepreneur.Grow Packer-----Intro - 00:15Ads - 05:02 - Please visit our sponsors Awakened Vapes, Genesis Pharms, and the Caramel Corn Company and help support this podcast!Interview - 8:15-----Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I'm your host Jay Rich and we've got a great interview for you here this week. Keith “KO Kid” Berry joins us for a talk about his MMA Career as well as his current Cannabis and Cryptocurrency adventures. I think you'll really enjoy it, but I also want to remind you that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests though, I do listen to the listeners, so please email me from our website or contact me on twitter @AwakenExchanges. I hope to have a full, diverse, and interesting schedule this year, so keep joining us here for the exchange.I've noticed that I have less and less random political crap playing over and over, taking up space in my head each week since Big Orange has been out of office, but that doesn't mean it has stopped by any means. This week I did want to mention something that we've been talking about on the podcast since the very beginning basically, and that's Covid. I can't remember which episode intro we mentioned it on, but I've been a proponent of Bret Weinstein and his assertion that we need to at least look into the Lab Leak Hypothesis since at least the middle of last year. It's been a very interesting couple of weeks as the media has started to actually take notice and look into this subject. I've never said that it was an intentional leak, and that's not the point. We just need to accurately know how and why this started so that we can put processes in place to prevent or at least identify potential disasters like this faster in the future. We've had over 590,000 deaths so far in the U.S. alone, and over 3.5 million total worldwide. That's a lot of people to lose no matter what, despite whatever comorbidity factors may have existed, all because of an accident within a lab. I'm not saying that that's for sure what happened, but there is definitely a preponderance of evidence stacking up in that direction and if we'd been actually been looking into it seriously for the last year instead of dismissing it as “conspiracy theory,” then maybe we'd be a lot closer to an answer. Now we just sit back and wait, hoping that it doesn't mutate into a more virulent or deadly strain.Enough on that rant for today though, I'm sure you're only vaguely interested in my opinion, if that. I do want to give this week's guest, Keith Berry, a bit more of an introduction though. Keith got his nickname, the “KO Kid,” very early in his career, scoring three knockouts in under a minute in just his first 6 fights. He continued his bruiser ways throughout his King of the Cage and Bellator career, scoring 17 wins, 12 by way of knockout and 3 more by submission. After Covid slowed down the fight scene, he took some time to follow another passion, the cannabis community. Then, as he had some more free time, he began to explore the world of cryptocurrency. He's had a fascinating life thus far and I want to thank him for coming onto the exchange and sharing a great conversation with me. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/AwakenedExchanges) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awakened-exchanges/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awakened-exchanges/support

In a stunning about-face, the media and government are finally giving credit to the lab leak hypothesis. For the entirety of the pandemic, the hypothesis has been labelled everything from a "conspiracy theory" to a Conservative/Trump talking point. We discuss the sudden change, why it came about and what we can learn from it.

One piece that we reference throughout both discussions is by former New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade that he published on Medium. Here is the link to Wade’s piece: https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038

One piece that we reference throughout both discussions is by former New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade that he published on Medium. Here is the link to Wade's piece: https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038

Dr Steven Quay is a scientist, an author, an entrepreneur and the CEO of the Seattle based company Atossa Therapeutics. This is Steven's second time on the podcast. On this episode Julius and Steven again discuss the Lab Leak Hypothesis and the public dialogue surrounding the issue.Dr Quay has over 360 published contributions to medicine and has been cited over 10,000 times. He holds 87 US patents and has invented 7 FDA-approved pharmaceuticals which have helped over 80 million people. He is the author of the best selling book on surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic, titled Stay Safe: A Physician's Guide to Surviving Coronavirus. He received his M.D. and Ph.D from The University of Michigan and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department at MIT with Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana. He was also a resident at the Harvard MGH Hospital, and spent almost a decade on the faculty of Stanford University's School of Medicine. Dr Quay and his company also work tirelessly to further research on breast cancer prevention. A TEDx talk he delivered on this disease has been viewed over 220,000 times.Interview with Robert Redfield - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0_RhfT21bwRand Paul and Anthony Fauci - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MndwrOzDvoDr Steven Quay's A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived - https://zenodo.org/record/4477081#TEDx Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK4PlbYE_5M&t=280s

For most of the last year, the assumption that COVID-19 accidentally came from the biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) lab in Wuhan, China, was seen as a conspiracy theory at best. It didn’t help that the media discredited any part of the idea because Donald Trump and his allies baselessly backed the “lab leak” due to its political ramifications towards pressure on China. Now, the Wall Street Journal has reported that U.S. intelligence officials have found that “3 Wuhan lab workers were sick enough to go to the hospital in November 2019,  bolstering calls to reconsider the coronavirus lab-leak theory.” This is big news because this would have been around the time that experts think the virus would have started circulating in Wuhan. In this episode, Drew and Alex talk about how this revelation may complicate the matter. Drew was more skeptical but is now open to more information, while Alex found the hypothesis to make sense from the beginning, though politics tainted it. Both talk about how this needs to be solved. The world needs to know whether “gain of function research” is beneficial towards fighting a pandemic or if it plays god in making a pandemic worse. Will China ever come clean? Has all evidence been removed? Or did the virus come from a bat? 

Good morning, and welcome back to the Bright Morning newsletter! We hope that everyone is taking advantage of the wonderful weather that we have been having (at least in Southern Ontario, or as we like to call it, The People's Republic of Lockdown). There is not much housekeeping to attend to before we begin, and so we will jump in right away. But first, we would like to remind readers to please share, comment, and like our work so that we know if we are headed in the right direction.Nuancing Conspiracy Theories“Conspiracy Theory” is a phrase that we have all heard a lot over the past year. Like the words racism, sexism, homophobia, and so on, conspiracy theory is also a term that is losing its meaning - and fast. This is because it has been weaponized as a catch-all phrase to discredit any one person or group who is questioning the narratives, motivations, and policies of the parties in power. This is a tough needle to thread because there are legitimate conspiracy theorists out there. People Like David Icke or Alex Jones are known for propagating falsehoods and lies, such as their respective claims that COVID-19 is transmitted through 5G towers or that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.However, as ridiculous as these statements are, sometimes there are kernels of truth baked into the claims of conspiracy theorists. The best example was when Alex Jones propagated the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which was based around the idea that the Clinton Foundation organized underground sex trafficking rings with minors. Of course, Pizzagate was mostly false, but after the murder (not suicide) of convicted pedophile and rapist Jeffrey Epstein, it was revealed that Bill Clinton was a frequent flyer on Epstein's private jet, believed to be called the Lolita Express (yikes), to Epstein's private island. Other notable guests included Kevin Spacey. So, is it really plausible to believe that Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and other monolithic figures - all of whom had close ties to Epstein - knew nothing about Epstein's crimes?Of course, the murder of Epstein has been covered with as much dirt as possible, but it is incidents like this which prove the importance of free speech. That is, sometimes the most ridiculous claims have some kernel of truth deep inside of them, and so it should be up to us to seek out that truth. Now that we have made this distinction, please keep it in mind as we examine how some of the most condemned “conspiracy theories” over the past year have miraculously gained support.Conspiracy #1: The Lab Leak HypothesisIf we wind back the clock to the beginning of the pandemic, the Lab Leak Hypothesis - the argument that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab - was treated with intense scorn. Even to this day, legacy media outlets, such as Forbes, continue calling the theory a “conspiracy,” even if they begrudgingly admit that there is a “germ of truth” to the claim that the virus was created by people. As evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying state, many scientists were either afraid to speak out or smeared as “conspiracy theorists” for merely proposing the idea that we ought to determine if the virus did, in fact, come from a lab. And is this not a reasonable question to ask? Why would this argument be treated with so much condemnation?Well, all roads lead back to Donald Trump. From the onset of the pandemic, Trump insisted on letting the world know that the virus did, in fact, originate in China. At the time, institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO) - which have uncomfortable ties to the Chinese Communist Party (to say the least) - were reluctant to assign blame to China, even going so far as to push their official, propagandistic narrative that there was no “human-to-human transmission [of the virus].” In fact, when developing a name for the disease caused by the virus, the WHO landed on “COVID-19” because they wanted to “avoid stigma” (even though illnesses such as the Spanish Flu, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and the Zika virus all refer to the geographical origin of the virus). This is why there was a semi-official ban on calling COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus,” with legacy media outlets asserting that it was a “racist” term. However, Trump saw through this and continued to remind the world that “it's China's fault. It should never have happened.” He was correct, but since this is the age of social media and political religions, if Trump is for something, then polite society must, by necessity of virtue signaling, be against it. And so, from the beginning of the pandemic, the virus was a culture war focal point and we were cursed with dishonest discourse, half-truths, and outright lies. Now that Trump is no longer in office, though, the question of the virus' origins is reclaiming attention and the Lab Leak Theory is becoming a more accepted hypothesis. More and more scientists are now openly stating that the Lab Leak Hypothesis “cannot be ruled out,” with the former director of the CDC not only agreeing that the theory cannot and should not be dismissed, but that it could also be true. Referring to Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying again, the two have been arguing for the investigation of the Lab Leak Hypothesis from the beginning. Their rationale is that bat-borne viruses do not transmit well indoors because bats are not indoor animals. But as we have seen, COVID-19 transmits extremely well indoors, and so this alone is worth investigating. Therefore, what was once regarded as an outlandish conspiracy theory is now becoming a more plausible explanation. There ought to be a feeling of vindication for scientists like Weinstein and Heying and a feeling of shame for people like Dr. Fauci (and other institutional shills) who weaponized the phrase “conspiracy theorist.” This callousness has obstructed public inquiries into the origin of the virus for over a year, and were it not for this deliberate dishonesty (and propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party), we could have had our answers by now. Nonetheless, this at least proves that freedom of speech is an important tool for the pursuit of truth, even if it invites the occasional witch hunt. Conspiracy #2: Bill C-10 and Trudeau's Thought PoliceThe audience might recall our podcast discussion from two weeks ago where we spoke about Bill C-10 in Canada and its implications for freedom of speech. However, in case readers are unfamiliar with this legislation - which is getting closer and closer to being passed now that it has the support of the Bloc Quebecois - allow us to fill you in on the details. As Canadian MP Pierre Poilievre demonstrated, Trudeau and the federal Liberals are working overtime to paint Bill C-10 as a supposedly harmless bill that would bring tech giants, such as Netflix and Amazon, under the control of the Broadcast Act to “create a level playing field.” This means that in theory, Netflix and Amazon would have to broadcast an approved amount of Canadian-made content for its Canadian users. Of course, Trudeau is not known for his commitment to truth and ethics, and so we can be certain that his assurance of the bill's hypothetical harmlessness is worth as much as the gum on our shoes. What the bill actually does is provide the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) - Canada's federal regulatory agency for broadcasting - with oversight duties for most, if not all, internet content produced in Canada. The Liberals also quietly removed the exemption for social media users, and so social media accounts such as YouTube channels, Twitter pages, and newsletters such as the one you are currently reading, will likely be subjected to CRTC supervision. Legal experts and former CRTC commissioners have described Bill C-10 as a “hammer” with major implications for free speech. In fact, one of the most prominent critics of the bill is Michael Geist, a Law professor at the University of Ottawa, who called C-10 one of the most egregious assaults on freedom of speech he has ever seen. Geist also examined memos from the Liberals confirming that C-10 will not be restricted to tech giants, but will apply to podcasts, newsletters, audiobooks, and even workout apps. In other words, all internet-based content will be under the control and supervision of Trudeau's Liberals. Therefore, Bill C-10 turns the Liberal-controlled CRTC into a literal thought police organization who will determine what Canadians can see, hear, read, watch, and speak while on the internet. When it comes to internet regulation of this sort, the only other notable example is the Chinese Communist Party, who employs a similar practice. Then again, Trudeau once famously stated that he “admires” China's basic dictatorship, and so this assault on freedom of speech cannot come as a total surprise. So, the evidence is in plain sight. We can see, with our own eyes, what this bill is capable of. But when Trudeau was pressed by Pierre Poilievre about the implications of the bill during question period, how do you think he responded? He not only referred to the criticism as a (ding ding!) “conspiracy theory,” but also suggested that bill would somehow benefit Canadians. Thus, Bill C-10 is another example of political elites telling us what they are going to do (in this case, regulating the internet), and then when they are faced with objections to their own, explicitly-stated intentions, they use the phrase “conspiracy theory” as a shield to deflect criticism. Conspiracy #3: The Great Reset The pattern of political and cultural leaders stating their intentions and then calling criticism of those intentions “conspiracy theories” is something that occurs with increasing frequency. Another example of this pattern in action is in leaders' responses to criticism of The Great Reset - an initiative led by billionaires and world leaders in the World Economic Forum (WEF) to rebuild and “reimagine” societies following the COVID-19 pandemic. The ambition of this initiative is to empower tech companies, who are already multinational, monopolistic, and accountable to no one, with even more power so that they can hypothetically assist in economic reconstruction. What is conveniently left out, however, is that the initiative is not concerned with the little things, such as our civil liberties. This is why tech companies have been the most vocal in their support for controversial and unconstitutional vaccine passports (to see our full criticism on vaccine passports, refer to our article from April 14). There are even articles on the WEF website that explicitly state that by 2030, we (meaning the lowly middle and working-class proles) “will own nothing and be happy.” Yet, when pressed with criticism over the obvious encroachment on civil liberties, leaders and legacy media outlets dismiss these concerns as “baseless conspiracy theories.” Of course, there are absurd actors whose rhetoric is conspiratorial, but this mostly comes from hive minds in the dark corners of the internet. But this should not distract us from the legitimate and warranted criticism of tech and political institutions. We could go down a rabbit hole with this, but we will instead leave you with a quote from a Forbes article which called the initiative “another example of wealthy, powerful elites saving their consciences with faux efforts to help the masses, and in the process make themselves even wealthier and more powerful.” We have all seen unethical behaviour from institutions and leaders over the past year and a half, and so is criticism like this really that “baseless”?| EXTRASFurther Listening 

This week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with author and former New York Times science journalist Nicholas Wade about his recent article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the possible origins of the SARS2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. In their conversation, they consider the possibility that, absent finding evidence of a natural jump from animals, the SAR2 virus may have come from a lab.

This week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with author and former New York Times science journalist Nicholas Wade about his recent article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the possible origins of the SARS2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. In their conversation, they consider the possibility that, absent finding evidence of a natural […]

Season 5, Episode 100.The theory that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan is gaining steam, Fauci also thinks China should be investigated, Rand Paul won't get vaccinated because he had coronavirus and the national guard mission on Capitol Hill finally ends. Plus Jack Posobiec and David Harsanyi join the show.Please subscribe to the podcast! And get more exclusive content from Buck at BuckSexton.com.Find Buck on:Twitter @BuckSexton  Facebook @BuckSexton Instagram @BuckSexton Email the show: TeamBuck@IHeartMedia.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comFollow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season 5, Episode 100. The theory that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan is gaining steam, Fauci also thinks China should be investigated, Rand Paul won't get vaccinated because he had coronavirus and the national guard mission on Capitol Hill finally ends. Plus Jack Posobiec and David Harsanyi join the show. Please subscribe to the podcast! And get more exclusive content from Buck at BuckSexton.com. Find Buck on: Twitter @BuckSexton   Facebook @BuckSexton  Instagram @BuckSexton  Email the show: TeamBuck@IHeartMedia.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul got into a heated debate during a Senate health committee hearing this week, clashing over funding from the National Institutes of Health using loopholes for risky "gain-of-function" research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This exchange puts the lab leak hypothesis in front of the entire world, and I thought I'd break it down for you. Links: Antony Fauci and Rand Paul Battle Over Wuhan Lab Conspiracy (https://www.mediaite.com/tv/you-are-entirely-and-completely-incorrect-watch-faucis-epic-throwdown-with-rand-paul-on-wuhan-lab-covid-theory/) Origins of COVID-19: Who Opened Pandora's Box at Wuhan – People or Nature? - The Wire Science (https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/origins-of-covid-19-who-opened-pandoras-box-at-wuhan-people-or-nature/) The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/) CDC Limits Review of Vaccinated but Infected; Draws Concern (https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-limits-review-of-vaccinated-but-infected-draws-concern/ar-BB1gx1au?ocid=uxbndlbing) Saagar Enjeti: New Details REVEAL Fauci, Media Coverup Of Lab Leak Hypothesis - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pk0wLN5uuU) Before the Next Pandemic, an Ambitious Push to Catalog Viruses in Wildlife - Yale E360 (https://e360.yale.edu/features/before-the-next-pandemic-an-ambitious-push-to-catalog-viruses-in-wildlife) WHO PDF on More Gain of Function Research (https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.17.205005.pdf) What should change after COVID-19, according to the stars of Netflix's 'Pandemic' series | Devex (https://www.devex.com/news/what-should-change-after-covid-19-according-to-the-stars-of-netflix-s-pandemic-series-98734) These Four Policy Changes Could Help Us Get Vaccines For The Next Pandemic Even Faster (https://www.forbes.com/sites/coronavirusfrontlines/2021/03/02/these-four-policy-changes-could-help-us-get-vaccines-for-the-next-pandemic-even-faster/?sh=7bb2247eb6c5) Global Virome Project (http://www.globalviromeproject.org/)

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"The Lab-Leak Hypothesis" author Nicholson Baker discusses whether high-risk experimental research might have created the global COVID-19 catastrophe.

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss organizations and individuals' efforts to shut down the conversation about The Lab Leak Hypothisys and the dangers of Gain Of Function experiments on deadly pathogens. Why do these people try to discourage and even ban discussions about where SARS-COVID-2 originated? Why is there an effort to squelch conversations about the implications to the world if this was indeed a genetically modified virus? Show Page Notes and Links: https://thefedorachronicles.com/podcast/2021/2021-02-23-silencing-lab-leak-hypothesis.html The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter: https://twitter.com/fedorachronicle The Fedora Chronicles Parler https://parler.com/profile/FedoraChronicles/posts

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss organizations and individuals' efforts to shut down the conversation about The Lab Leak Hypothisys and the dangers of Gain Of Function experiments on deadly pathogens. Why do these people try to discourage and even ban discussions about where SARS-COVID-2 originated? Why is there an effort to squelch conversations about the implications to the world if this was indeed a genetically modified virus? Show Page Notes and Links: https://thefedorachronicles.com/podcast/2021/2021-02-23-silencing-lab-leak-hypothesis.html The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter: https://twitter.com/fedorachronicle The Fedora Chronicles Parler https://parler.com/profile/FedoraChronicles/posts

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss the latest developments from Wuhan, China, during the first week of the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 virus. Peter Daszak from EcoHealth Alliance has been the strongest opponent against The Lab Leak Hypothesis has suddenly made the statement that theory can't be discounted quite yet. Why the change of heart? Jay and Eric revisit the events that led to The Obama Administration's moratorium on "Gain Of Function Research" on pathogens. Was the lab accident with a highly infectious strain of Anthrax in June 2014 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a harbinger for things to come? And what about the reports The United States State Department intercepted about lab workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology becoming severely sick mere weeks before the first reports of the deadly outbreak in that specific city in China in the autumn of 2019? Show Notes and Links: https://thefedorachronicles.com/podcast/2021/2021-02-04-revenge-lab-leak-hypothesis.html The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter:

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss the latest developments from Wuhan, China, during the first week of the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 virus. Peter Daszak from EcoHealth Alliance has been the strongest opponent against The Lab Leak Hypothesis has suddenly made the statement that theory can't be discounted quite yet. Why the change of heart? Jay and Eric revisit the events that led to The Obama Administration's moratorium on "Gain Of Function Research" on pathogens. Was the lab accident with a highly infectious strain of Anthrax in June 2014 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a harbinger for things to come? And what about the reports The United States State Department intercepted about lab workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology becoming severely sick mere weeks before the first reports of the deadly outbreak in that specific city in China in the autumn of 2019? Show Notes and Links: https://thefedorachronicles.com/podcast/2021/2021-02-04-revenge-lab-leak-hypothesis.html The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter:

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss the latest developments from Wuhan, China, during the first week of the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 virus. Peter Daszak from EcoHealth Alliance has been the strongest opponent against The Lab Leak Hypothesis has suddenly made the statement that theory can't be discounted quite yet. Why the change of heart? Jay and Eric revisit the events that led to The Obama Administration's moratorium on "Gain Of Function Research" on pathogens. Was the lab accident with a highly infectious strain of Anthrax in June 2014 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a harbinger for things to come? And what about the reports The United States State Department intercepted about lab workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology becoming severely sick mere weeks before the first reports of the deadly outbreak in that specific city in China in the autumn of 2019? Show Notes and Links: https://thefedorachronicles.com/podcast/2021/2021-02-04-revenge-lab-leak-hypothesis.html The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter:

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss the latest developments from Wuhan, China, during the first week of the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 virus. Peter Daszak from EcoHealth Alliance has been the strongest opponent against The Lab Leak Hypothesis has suddenly made the statement that theory can't be discounted quite yet. Why the change of heart? Jay and Eric revisit the events that led to The Obama Administration's moratorium on "Gain Of Function Research" on pathogens. Was the lab accident with a highly infectious strain of Anthrax in June 2014 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a harbinger for things to come? And what about the reports The United States State Department intercepted about lab workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology becoming severely sick mere weeks before the first reports of the deadly outbreak in that specific city in China in the autumn of 2019? Show Notes and Links: https://thefedorachronicles.com/podcast/2021/2021-02-04-revenge-lab-leak-hypothesis.html The Fedora Chronicles products on Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/fedorachronicles Support The Fedora Chronicles on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fedorachronicles The Fedora Chronicles Twitter:

In this episode, I get real with chall. I talk about stonkz, posting about your covid vaccine, and the LAB LEAK HYPOTHESIS. I have been feeling a bit lazy lately and giving myself a little break has been important. This episode gives you a little peek into the weird life of trying to navigate being an influencer when you were not trying to be an influencer. Shit can be rough sometimes. Sorry I was a little scattered and unorganized this episode but it doesn't matter cuz we are getting better baby! Thanks for listening:)

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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What a week! Here's what I decided to talk about:1. Marvis toothpaste2. The Georgia Senate runoffs3. Siege of Capitol Building4. MF Doom's Operation: Doomsday5. Washing the walls6. Caring for a goldfish7. Axe to Grind8. Disposing of old X-mas trees9. Basil Hayden's Dark Rye10. Noom11. Posting stuff for free12. Underrated/overrated/properly rated: the US Capitol, White House, and Lincoln Memorial13. Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Keyboard Fantasies14. The best veggies for chopping15. Co-Op Sauce's Chi-Racha16. Frank Asch's children's books17. Patagonia Nanopuff 18. Schoolhouse clocks19. Good Neighbor Studios candles20. Nicholson Baker's "The Lab Leak Hypothesis"