Podcasts about Nicholas Wade

Nicholas Wade is a former science writer for The New York Times and author of several books on human evolution, including A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History and his new book, The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations. Today, I invite Wade on to discuss some of the toughest topics in modern science: the controversial territory of race and genetics, and whether there are fundamental genetic differences between right-wingers and left-wingers. We also dig into the fertility crisis. Birth rates across the developed world have collapsed below replacement level, and no country except religious Georgia has figured out how to reverse the trend. Wade explains why modern economic progress makes having children less appealing, and why the breakdown of the family matters. Finally, we talk about how the modern nation-state stamped out tribalism, why the academic establishment refuses to engage honestly with genetics research, what evolutionary psychology tells us about foreign policy, and much more. Whether you find Wade's evolutionary framework persuasive or not, I hope our conversation raises questions that most political leaders and academics prefer to ignore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Science writer Nicholas Wade explains how human nature continues to shape—and sometimes destabilize—modern civilization, and argues that ignoring the effects of human nature on politics is one of society's greatest mistakes. Drawing on anthropology, evolutionary biology, and history, Wade shows how deep-rooted traits not only shape the outcomes of certain political beliefs and systems, but also affect how people form families, religion, and social order. Nicholas Wade has worked at Nature and Science, and, for many years, at The New York Times, where he was an editorial writer and science editor. He is the author of four books about recent human evolution. His latest is The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations.

The ladies discuss Harry Sisson's sex scandal, Gal Gadot's Zionist woes, Gwyneth Paltrow's beef with intimacy coordinators, and The NYT's Covid op-ed. Read the Nicholas Wade article mentioned in the episode here.

Curious George (2006) tells the tail of the beloved eponymous monkey (sic) and reimagines (and sanitizes) The Man in the Yellow Hat as an archaeologist. This movie sets up a thoughtful and nuanced take on archaeological ethics and neocolonialism, and then says “Fuck it, it belongs in museum after all.” But George is soooo cuuuute!Get in touch with us:Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.comIn this episode:The History of Curious George: https://www.curiousgeorge.com/history/Nicholas Wade (2007). In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire. New York Times: https://cell2soul.typepad.com/cell2soul_blog/files/Lice.pdfAiello and Wheeler (1995). The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis. Current Anthropology: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/204350Richard Wrangham (2009). Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Profile Books: https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-DDoNCJJ_Wt0qOH7e/Catching%20Fire%20%5BHow%20Cooking%20Made%20Us%20Human%5D.pdfAnn Nicgorski (2006). Curious George's Bad Example. Archaeology Magazine: https://archive.archaeology.org/online/reviews/curious.htmlCurious George and the Looted Idol (2006). Archaeology Magazine:https://archive.archaeology.org/0605/news/insider.htmlAlfred Russel Wallace: https://wallacefund.myspecies.info/content/biography-wallaceKirk Wallace Johnson (2018) The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Random House: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44153387-the-feather-thiefJim Corbett: https://www.corbettnationalpark.in/corbett-heritage.htmClovis Culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture

Curious George (2006) tells the tail of the beloved eponymous monkey (sic) and reimagines (and sanitizes) The Man in the Yellow Hat as an archaeologist. This movie sets up a thoughtful and nuanced take on archaeological ethics and neocolonialism, and then says “Fuck it, it belongs in museum after all.” But George is soooo cuuuute! Get in touch with us: Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: The History of Curious George: https://www.curiousgeorge.com/history/ Nicholas Wade (2007). In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire. New York Times: https://cell2soul.typepad.com/cell2soul_blog/files/Lice.pdf Aiello and Wheeler (1995). The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis. Current Anthropology: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/204350 Richard Wrangham (2009). Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Profile Books: https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-DDoNCJJ_Wt0qOH7e/Catching%20Fire%20%5BHow%20Cooking%20Made%20Us%20Human%5D.pdf Ann Nicgorski (2006). Curious George's Bad Example. Archaeology Magazine: https://archive.archaeology.org/online/reviews/curious.html Curious George and the Looted Idol (2006). Archaeology Magazine: https://archive.archaeology.org/0605/news/insider.html Alfred Russel Wallace: https://wallacefund.myspecies.info/content/biography-wallace Kirk Wallace Johnson (2018) The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Random House: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44153387-the-feather-thief Jim Corbett: https://www.corbettnationalpark.in/corbett-heritage.htm Clovis Culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture

01:00 NR: Why Did California Cut Fire Prevention Spending While Keeping a Rainy-Day Fund?, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-did-california-cut-fire-prevention-spending-while-keeping-a-rainy-day-fund/ 12:15 The FBI is terrible at background checks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtgtSNMGBt0 14:50 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality 19:00 Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158567 25:00 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality?utm_source=publication-search 29:00 Best way to survive a fire is to be connected to your neighbors and to have resources (financial, social, emotional, purpose). I volunteer so I have a visceral sense of people depending on me. 30:00 The Anti-Social Century by Derek Thompson, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/ 34:00 I was thinking about publishing my love poems 51:00 Japanese TV show Extremely Inappropriate, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/world/asia/japan-extremely-inappropriate.html 1:20:00 I worked for a year in Australia after I graduated high school in June 1984, https://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l3.html 1:38:50 Kip joins to talk about short-term memory 1:50:00 The advantages of elite universities 2:18:00 LA Fire Truths and Lies with Hotshot Director, https://www.carousel.blog/p/la-fire-truths-and-lies-with-hotshot 2:30:00 California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid, https://www.amazon.com/California-Burning-Pacific-Electric-Americas/dp/059333065X 2:31:00 California Burning author Katherine Blunt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOyjOewSPqc 2:48:30 Just as I am 3:01:00 The MICE Method: How the CIA Persuades People to Betray Their Country, https://spyauthor.medium.com/the-mice-method-how-the-cia-persuades-people-to-betray-their-country-0bdb9094103b 3:05:45 Nathan Cofnas talks to Nicholas Wade about group differences, lab leak theory, https://ncofnas.com/p/talking-about-race-differences-with 3:20:00 Lab leak theory 4:07:10 DTG Christmas Quiz 2024 with Helen Lewis, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/dtg-christmas-quiz-2024-with-helen-lewis-badstats 4:24:50 Noah Rothman joins Hugh to talk about California's Chernobyl, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKuObXvxKo 4:29:20 Evaluating Pete Hegseth's senate performance 4:40:00 The Theory of Dyadic Morality: Reinventing Moral Judgment by Redefining Harm, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1088868317698288

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

* Taylor Swift Encourages Followers To Head To The Polls On Super Tuesday! * Yes, COVID came from a lab - When will the mainstream media quit gaslighting us? - Steven W. Mosher, POP.org * The Wall Street Journal just breathlessly reported that the COVID virus was manufactured in a lab - It even hinted that the lab in question might have been – drumroll, please – the Wuhan Institute of Virology. * Where Did Covid Come From? - New documents bolster the theory that it not only escaped from a laboratory but was developed in one - Nicholas Wade, WSJ.com * Jack Smith Pushes Court Not to Ask Jurors How They Voted in 2020! * Controversial criminal case against Trump set to implode - WND.com * Trump's attorneys submitted a filing that shows Willis and Wade exchanged more than 2,000 cell phone calls and nearly 12,000 text messages in the first 11 months of 2021. According to the Washington Times, “cellphone records show Wade visited the Atlanta-area neighborhood where Willis lived nearly three dozen times before he was hired.” * Pentagon Investigating Over 50 Cases of ‘Theft, Fraud & Corruption' Linked to Ukraine Aid! * 'Skyrocketing': Number of attacks on Christians, churches explodes! - WND.com * Shame On Joe! - Biden intends to sign UN Gun Ban! * Could Democrats Decertify a Trump Victory in 2024?

Hour 3: Mark Reardon welcomes Nicholas Wade, former Science Editor for the New York Times, to discuss his latest articles in the Wall Street Journal and City Journal on Covid origins and the lab-leak hypothesis. Then, Phil Holloway, Fox News Legal Analyst, and former police officer, joins Mark Reardon to discuss the latest on the Fani Willis hearing, with recently released texts contradicting testimony from witness Terrance Bradley. Later, Mark brings you the Audio Cut of the Day.

Mark Reardon welcomes Nicholas Wade, former Science Editor for the New York Times, to discuss his latest articles in the Wall Street Journal and City Journal on Covid origins and the lab-leak hypothesis.

Criminal Behaviorology  Lab Leak! Nicholas Wade and Origin of SARS-CoV-2 The entire interview can be found on our YouTube channel:  https://youtu.be/b-uyVPAnd5I The views of our guests do not necessarily reflect those of Criminal Behaviorology, nor our sponsors.  Nicholas Wade has written numerous books and articles on science. As the Science Editor for the New York Times (1990 to 1996) he possesses the skills necessary to sift through complicated ideas and arrive at the truth. When the COVID-19 (aka SARS-CoV-2) pandemic began, he soon began to suspect there was an unspoken truth about the origin of the virus.  He found not only was there evidence this virus was not of natural origin, but there was a deliberate effort to keep such an idea from becoming part of the mainstream discourse. Show Highlights: Nicholas Wade's concern with bias in science writing. How he became interested in SARS-CoV-2. The sustained campaign to suppress the lab leak hypothesis. How SARS-CoV-2 looks and acts differently than a natural virus. The three parts of the SARS-CoV-2's genetic structure that point to a synthetic origin. The 2018 DEFUSE proposal: Manipulation of the original SARS virus. The objections to “gain-of-function” research. How they were ignored. Behavioral and circumstantial evidence. The uncooperativeness of the Chinese government. Political polarization regarding the SARS-CoV-2 issue. Do we have enough evidence already? The harm done to the reputation of the scientific community. The Story of the Decade, by Nicholas Wade: https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-documents-bolster-lab-leak-hypothesis Look up CrimBehav on Facebook:  facebook.com/CrimBehav. Criminal Behaviorology on Blogger.  CB Podcast Sites: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episodes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/criminal-behaviorology/id1441879795?mt=2&uo=4  https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83MzY4OWFjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz https://open.spotify.com/show/5VM7Sjv762u7nb91YWGczZ https://www.breaker.audio/criminal-behaviorology https://overcast.fm/itunes1441879795/criminal-behaviorology https://pca.st/Q38w https://radiopublic.com/criminal-behaviorology-GEv2AZ https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/criminal-behaviorology On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKSVoZOBwCG28xMnuPq_Gtw On Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1826027 On Locals Social Media: https://criminalbehaviorology.locals.com/?showPosts=1 https://criminalbehaviorology.locals.com On Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrimBehav On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81930699 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a3604516-0645-4341-a792-75d10754556d/criminal-behaviorology Please write a review on any of our podcast sites listed above.  Questions, comments, and requests for transcripts to: criminalbehaviorology@gmail.com Thank you for listening. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/criminalbehaviorology/support

Chapter 1 What's A Troublesome Inheritance Book by Nicholas Wade"A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History" is a controversial book written by Nicholas Wade, a science journalist. In this book, Wade presents his arguments on how genetic variations among different populations have influenced human history, including societal attitudes, behavior, and culture. He explores the concept of race, touching on topics such as intelligence, social behavior, agriculture, and civilization.Wade's book has been criticized for promoting pseudoscience and using outdated or flawed research to support his claims. Many scientists and researchers have identified problems in his methodology and handling of complex genetic concepts, arguing that his conclusions oversimplify the genetic basis of human behavior and disregard the influence of social and environmental factors.Furthermore, Wade's ideas have been labeled as racially deterministic and potentially promoting discrimination or biased views about different groups. The controversy surrounding the book has sparked discussions on the ethical responsibility of authors and journalists when tackling sensitive topics like race and genetics.Chapter 2 Is A Troublesome Inheritance Book A Good BookOpinions on whether a book is good or not can vary greatly among individuals. Some people may find "A Troublesome Inheritance" by Nicholas Wade to be thought-provoking and informative, while others may disagree with its arguments or find issues with the author's methodology. It is always recommended to read reviews and gather different perspectives before making a decision about reading a book.Chapter 3 A Troublesome Inheritance Book by Nicholas Wade Summary"A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History" is a book written by Nicholas Wade, a science journalist and former science editor for The New York Times. In this book, Wade explores the relationship between human genetics, race, and the social construct of race.Wade argues that human evolution and genetic differences between populations have contributed to the development of different cultures and societies throughout history. He asserts that human populations have evolved independently in different regions of the world, resulting in genetic differences that can influence behavior, social structures, and cultural norms.Wade discusses various genetic adaptations in different populations, such as lactose tolerance, which he suggests could have impacted the development of pastoral societies. He also explores the genetics of human skin color, arguing that it is not solely determined by environment but also shaped by evolutionary pressures in different geographic regions.The author delves into the controversial topic of race, acknowledging that while the concept of race as a biological category is flawed, genetic differences between populations can be statistically identified. He posits that these genetic differences have contributed to the formation of distinct regional cultures and can influence various aspects of social behavior.Wade argues against the prevailing narrative in social sciences, which claims that genetic differences between populations have little to no impact on human behavior and societal differences. He suggests that ignoring these genetic differences may hinder our understanding of the historical and cultural diversity of human societies.Overall, "A Troublesome Inheritance" presents a controversial perspective on the role of genetics in shaping human history and social structures. It invites readers to...

01:00 Structure not personality runs the world 02:00 Everybody wants to rule the world 05:00 I've got a wanna dictator in my pants 10:45 Tucker Carlson on the wannabe dictator in the White House, https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson 19:00 Andrew Sullivan: Nicholas Wade On The Lab Leak Covid Theory The fearless science writer is one of the few to take the subject seriously. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/nicholas-wade-on-the-lab-leak-covid 20:00 The left's denial of human nature & the traditional family 23:00 Race vs population clusters 30:00 Ed Dutton: Human Evolution Has Accelerated! Why Are They Hiding This?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id5VStbqa10 35:40 Ed Dutton: What Are The Evolutionary Reasons for Fellatio / Oral Sex?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7cgT-KQqAs 39:45 Nicholas Wade on the Lab Leak Hypothesis 38:00 Where COVID Came From by Nicholas Wade, https://www.amazon.com/Where-COVID-Came-Nicholas-Wade/dp/1641772336 50:00 Why would Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins cover-up the origins of Covid? https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/lab-leak-theory-covid-19s-origins-nicholas-wade 54:00 Gain of function means souping up a virus https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/well/family/friendship-ghost.html https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/06/news-never-pays/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/business/media/eric-spofford-new-hampshire-public-radio.html Trump stokes anger and fury, stoking anger and fury? https://www.ft.com/content/0788c2f6-bfdc-43fa-84ca-86c4e98d211c A Chat with Nathan Cofnas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XiywNnqhn8 https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/car_salesmen_different_people_different_prices/ Ganesh on DeSantis, https://www.ft.com/content/f0cf9c81-a9df-44c6-b702-1b13120d5a05 FT: The vibes theory of politics, Our ‘beliefs' are often just unexamined tribal loyalties, https://www.ft.com/content/0ca72be9-18c8-4b9f-9dbe-27d97b9e63e6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvYr_ZIDwtA&ab_channel=StephenJJames Decoding Dennis Prager, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=148127 John J. Mearsheimer on Ukraine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rHBRwdql8 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/24/the-ron-desantis-straitjacket-00098556 Is Gossip Good? https://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/indexp271.html https://www.healthshots.com/mind/happiness-hacks/4-benefits-of-gossiping-that-can-keep-you-stress-free/ https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/gossip-drives-social-bonding-and-helps-people-learn https://studyfinds.org/gossip-help-people-learn-bond/ https://positivepsychology.com/positive-gossip/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/gossip-is-good/561737/ https://time.com/5680457/why-do-people-gossip/ https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/gossiping-is-scientifically-proven-to-be-good-for-us-heres-why https://www.wired.com/story/reality-tv-saved-me/ https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/interview-with-renee-diresta-online-ecosystems-disinformation-censorship-debates https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/opinion/stem-women-gender-disparity.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/world/europe/andrew-tate-arrest-romania.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-labels-google-apple.html https://www.smh.com.au/national/did-the-abc-throw-stan-grant-under-the-bus-it-s-a-matter-of-opinion-20230521-p5da0b.html https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/nick-fuentes/ https://fakenous.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-the-hilarious-demagogue-b75 https://fakenous.substack.com/p/right-critique-of-trump

In this episode: Nicholas Wade is a science journalist who has written for publications such as the New York Times, Nature, and Science throughout his more than four-decade career. Wade recently testified about the lab leak hypothesis to the House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic and recommends listening to that testimony. The origin of the coronavirus became politicized from the beginning, but it should be a purely scientific issue that people of all political affiliations would want to understand. The theory behind gain-of-function research is that scientists can get ahead of nature by studying deadly viruses and creating vaccines to prepare for potential outbreaks in the future. https://terryvirts.com/ Twitter: @AstroTerry Instagram: astro_terry

Kongressförhör i USA har återigen eldat på teorin om att en kinesisk labbläcka orsakade pandemin. Något som tidigare New York Times-journalisten Nicholas Wade propagerat för. I tomrummet av viktig fakta har frågan politiserats. Närmare 7 miljoner dödsfall i pandemin världen över har rapporterats in till WHO. Att få reda på orsaken till pandemin är viktigt, inte minst med tanke på hur vi ska hantera nästa pandemi. Men, när klargörande fakta fortfarande saknas så har frågan blivit politisk teater istället.I Vetenskapspodden hörs: Tomas Lindblad, vetenskapsjournalist, Ulrika Björkstén, SR:s vetenskapskommentator.PoddledareCamilla WidebeckProducentPeter Normark

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about California storming, Kaepernick and Prince Harry childhood memories, Mexico's Obredor comment, and Nicholas Wade's testimony to the House Select Committee on Covid.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comNicholas Wade is a journalist with a long, distinguished career at the New York Times, the magazine Nature, and the journal Science. He's the author of many books, including A Troublesome Inheritance, The Faith Instinct, and Before the Dawn. Last year he became one of the few mainstream journalists to seriously consider the lab leak theory, so in this episode we focus on his querulous and disturbing tract, Where Covid Came From.For two clips of our convo — whether Fauci had any role in the events that led to Covid, and the media's cowardice over covering the lab leak theory — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: RNA and coronaviruses, the eerie structure of SARS-CoV-2, the shockingly lax security at the Wuhan lab, the NIH money that went to Wuhan, the Chinese grant proposal to the DOD, unpacking the Orwellian euphemism “gain of function,” the alarming behavior of the Chinese government in the fall of 2019, the implausibility of the wet market theory, the PR behavior of science journalists, Fauci's distrust of the masses, the polarization of Trump's “China virus” comments, the left's lockstep resistance against lab leak (with notable exceptions like Jon Stewart), what the new GOP House could find with subpoenas, and a brief discussion of Wade's controversial book A Troublesome Inheritance — namely the ongoing interplay between human genetics, culture and the rest of the environment.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comAfter working as a hairstylist for over a decade, Ben got a creative writing degree from Columbia University and started contributing to publications such as Newsweek and The Washington Examiner. Raised in a Christian cult, he's close to publishing a memoir, Cis White Gay, about his liberation from what he calls the Church of Social Justice. You can also read Ben on his substack. I find his story a fascinating glimpse into our fast-changing world.For two clips of our convo — why women bond with gay hairdressers, and what queer theorists and Iran's theocrats have in common — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: Ben's upbringing in a Christian cult while being a “super effeminate girly kid,” his OCD through praying, his escape into alcohol at age 12, his parents' divorce and leaving the church, his codependency with his mother, being tormented as a “f****t” at his public high school, his drug addiction as a teen and dropping out of college, his 17-year sobriety, his marriage to a man, his activism for gay and trans rights, getting a college degree in his 30s, and the brutal woke bigotry he experienced at Columbia. Browse the entire Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 episodes are free in their entirety). Next week is Nicholas Wade on the lab leak theory. If you haven't already, subscribe to the Weekly Dish to get full episodes and the full written version every Friday in your in-tray: https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

In this very special episode, Seán chats with Kate's eldest brother, the poet, writer and photographer, John Carder Bush at his home in South East London. A dream come true! In this first part, we talk about John's early life, how he developed his writing, his days playing in folk bands in London (with a young Kate taking notes), forming the Salatticum Poets with his great friends Tony Buzan and Jeremy Cartland, the story behind “Nicholas Wade” and so much more! 

Nicholas Wade is a journalist who has written for publications such as the New York Times, Nature, Science, and others. He is the author of a recent article about the “lab leak hypothesis” for the Coronavirus, published in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. https://terryvirts.com/ Twitter: @AstroTerry Instagram: astro_terry

On this episode, Dr. Derrick Artis rejoins the PracticeAdvantage podcast to discuss the value of alliance groups, buying groups, and the roles they play in your business success. Key TakeawaysBuying Groups were born in the 80s as a response to retailers entering the eye care space. The broad vendor discounts and consolidated billing allowed independent eye care professionals to compete with the retailers on a different level. Alliance Groups were born in the 90s and early 2000s as a response continued change in the market. Not only did independents need volume-based discounts, but business resources, education, and more sophisticated business solutions. Now, practices are facing additional challenges from e-commerce and managed vision care. The groups of the future need to address these. In order to face the future of independent eye care practices, owners need to leverage the size and strength of a combined buying group and alliance group together. What Derrick is Reading:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval HarariA Troublesome Inheritance by Nicholas Wade

Award-winning journalist Nicholas Wade makes the case that Covid-19 did, in fact, originate from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. https://terryvirts.com/ Twitter: @AstroTerry Instagram: astro_terry

The hunt is on for the source of the coronavirus. Was it a natural leap from animal to human via another host animal or was it a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology? To date, we don't know. And the answer is vitally important to a large swath of people and the Chinese and American governments.   Early in the pandemic, we were heavily influenced to believe it was a natural emergence. The reason we were nudged in that direction was statements from two significant scientific groups – statements that, according to science journalist Nicholas Wade, “were not at first examined as critically as they should have been.”   On February 19, 2020, The Lancet published a statement that said, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”   Wade says, “Contrary to that assertion, the idea that the virus might have escaped from a lab-invoked accident, not conspiracy – it surely needed to be explored, not rejected out of hand. A defining mark of good scientists is that they go to great pains to distinguish what they know and what they don't know. By this criterion, the signatories of the Lancet letter were behaving as poor scientists.”   We invited Nicholas Wade to discuss his investigative work to have a Conversation That Matters about what we do and don't actually know about the source of COVID-19. ---   Please become a Patreon subscriber and support the production of this program, with a $1 pledge https://goo.gl/ypXyDs --- ctm358 #covid19 #coronavirus #pandemic SHOW LESS

Nick talks to writer and science journalist Nicholas Wade about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 pandemic. Nicholas describes how this story has evolved since the start of the pandemic, and contrasts the the two main hypotheses for the origins of COVID: wildlife spillover vs. lab leak. He describes how viruses in the past (e.g. SARS1) emerged, peculiarities of the SARS2 genome, Peter Daszak & EcoHealth Alliance, Wuhan Institute of Virology, and various conflicts of interest that people have had. He describes how we don't have proof whether a wildlife spillover or a lab leak explains the origins of COVID-19, what definitive evidence would look like, and whether we are likely to resolve this mystery.USEFUL LINKS:Nicholas Wade's writing on this topic:[https://nicholaswade.medium.com/]Download the podcast & follow Nick at his website[www.nickjikomes.com]Support the show on Patreon & get early access to episodes[https://www.patreon.com/nickjikomes]Sign up for the weekly Mind & Matter newsletter[https://mindandmatter.substack.com/]Athletic Greens, comprehensive daily nutrition (Free 1-year supply of Vitamin D w/ purchase)[https://www.athleticgreens.com/mindandmatter]Try MUD/WTR, a mushroom-based coffee alternative[https://www.mudwtr.com/mindmatter]Discount Code ($5 off) = MINDMATTEROrganize your digital highlights & notes w/ Readwise (2 months free w/ subscription)[https://readwise.io/nickjikomes/]Start your own podcast (get $20 Amazon gift card after signup)[https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1507198]Buy Mind & Matter T-Shirts[https://www.etsy.com/shop/OURMIND?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=1036758072§ion_id=34648633]Connect with Nick Jikomes on Twitter[https://twitter.com/trikomes]​​​Learn more about our podcast sponsor, Dosist[https://dosist.com/]ABOUT Nick Jikomes:Nick is a neuroscientist and podcast host. He is currently Director of Science & Innovation at Leafly, a technology startup in the legal cannabis industry. He received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University and a B.S. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/nickjikomes)

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, we still have American citizens behind enemy lines in Afghanistan and the elites in the Democrat Party don't care. Why is there no committee on Americans left behind enemy lines in Afghanistan? Planes on the runway at the Kabul airport are being prevented from leaving, yet the White House refuses to call them hostages. The media ignores the presence of Iran, Russia, and China in the region. Meanwhile, the Biden administration still can't produce the nearly 5,000 children that they can't account for. And every time there's a natural disaster it's We The People that become the problem for causing climate change, or for White supremacy, or anything else. Then, the New York Times's Paul Krugman has taken aim at Levin's book "American Marxism" taking cheap shots, instead of accepting the public challenge to debate the substance of the book's premise on a live broadcast of this program. Later, Nicholas Wade, the former science editor of the New York Times, broke the COVID origin story earlier this year. Now, the New York Post is reporting that Anthony Fauci has been caught in a lie regarding his alleged ignorance on animal testing and gain of function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Afterward, Marx was a pagan and as much as they'd like it, there's never been a right to abortion in the U.S Constitution.

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, we still have American citizens behind enemy lines in Afghanistan and the elites in the Democrat Party don't care. Why is there no committee on Americans left behind enemy lines in Afghanistan? Planes on the runway at the Kabul airport are being prevented from leaving, yet the White House refuses to call them hostages. The media ignores the presence of Iran, Russia, and China in the region. Meanwhile, the Biden administration still can't produce the nearly 5,000 children that they can't account for. And every time there's a natural disaster it's We The People that become the problem for causing climate change, or for White supremacy, or anything else. Then, the New York Times's Paul Krugman has taken aim at Levin's book "American Marxism" taking cheap shots, instead of accepting the public challenge to debate the substance of the book's premise on a live broadcast of this program. Later, Nicholas Wade, the former science editor of the New York Times, broke the COVID origin story earlier this year. Now, the New York Post is reporting that Anthony Fauci has been caught in a lie regarding his alleged ignorance on animal testing and gain of function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Afterward, Marx was a pagan and as much as they'd like it, there's never been a right to abortion in the U.S Constitution.

An introduction to Nicholas Wade's new article in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists concerning how the conversation around the origins of SARS-CoV-2 was skewed right from the start. You could just read the article, but we hope you'll also listen to Samuel stumble through it. ALSO: we try to add intro music to the podcast! Thanks to "Royalty Free Music from Bensound"

In this episode, Michael argues that a deep player within our BDSM comes from a biological religious instinct. Using studies from Nicholas Wade, Michael and Indy mirror sessions they have had to religious behaviour that we would have normally done in previous generations and in ancient times. Does this lack of religious space in today's society mean we are searching for it in other ways like BDSM? Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): License code: GNHL82KTDKW6KBTH UZ3QGMJGYWGTEZYZ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bdsm-reimagined/message

While waiting for an electrician, Samuel takes another dive into the murky waters of Covid-19, this time focusing on the Royal Society of Canada's June 2021 report: Excess All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Epidemic in Canada. He talks about media coverage and the role media plays in amplifying or dismissing certain stories, like Nicholas Wade's article.

Emma hosts today's Majority Report featuring a recent interview Sam recorded with Harvard history professor Annette Gordon-Reed on her new book, On Juneteenth, which explores the Texas roots and national consciousness of the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the South. Beginning in the 1500s, Gordon-Reed walks us through the arrival of slavery in Texas with Spanish settlers, and its development as an Enslaver's Republic as it broke away from Mexico and U.S. slaveholders ventured into the state to capitalize on the protection of the industry. Then, they discuss Gordon Granger's arrival in Texas on June 19, 1865, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, and the active and direct removal of status from former slave owners and deliverance of autonomy to Black freed folk, before they move into the violence of reconstruction in Texas and the South. Professor Gordon-Reed then walks through the importance of Juneteenth since the arrival of Granger, with the purchasing of what would become Emancipation Park in Houston as a grounds for celebration directly following it, why this day, in particular, took off as a celebration of manumission, and how Juneteenth has come into more widespread popularity. They round out the discussion by touching on Gordon-Reed's experience as one of the first Black students at her elementary school following Brown v. Board. Emma concludes the first half by watching Biden get stumped by U.S. history once again and come out against interference in foreign elections before she looks into Andrew Yang's horrifying and violent dehumanization of homeless and mentally ill New Yorkers. And in the Fun Half: Emma and Matt explore the absurdity of Q anon leadership, driven home by their lack of awareness on the 69/420 connection, and look into the history between Nicholas Wade, who propagated recent Covid Lab Leak theories, and Tucker Carlson's favorite racial “scientist” (eugenicist), Charles Murray. Dave from Jamaica calls in to highlight the violent ridiculousness of relying on IQ, drawing direct parallels to those that see a correlation between ejaculatory capabilities and intelligence, before he jumps into the discussion of Andrew Yang's property-over-people politics and the pro-police panic setting in amid misleading statistics from major cities. Then, the crew watches Dave Rubin compare the lack of an existential threat due to climate change to the lack of an existential threat in… Armageddon, and, after a little sports talk, Phil from Chicago calls in to discuss the threat the Thacker Pass project poses to indigenous communities in NV, plus, your calls and IMs! Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ (Merch issues and concerns can be addressed here: majorityreportstore@mirrorimage.com) The AM Quickie is now on YouTube Subscribe to the AM Quickie at https://fans.fm/amquickie Make the AMQ part of your Alexa Flash Briefing too! You can now watch the livestream on Twitch Check out today's sponsors: Geologie: A simple skincare routine formulated for daily use. Personalized for your skin and the benefits you want to see. Great for individuals with sensitive skin, acne, dark eye circles or wrinkles. Head to geologie.com and take their free skincare quiz to save up to 40% off on your 30 days trial or just click the link below. That's geologie.com  to save 40% off on your 30 day trial. https://thld.co/geologie_majorityreport Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein's podcast News from Nowhere, at https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel! Check out The Nomiki Show live at 3 pm ET on YouTube at patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt's podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover, or on iTunes. Check out Jamie's podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET!) Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn

Presenting: a conversation with Christina Rice – writer of history, Hollywood, and horses (the little ones) – on all things Ann Dvorak, Jane Russell, Equestria, research, books dictating to you how you're going to write them, and life and marriage amidst the demands of Type One wrangling.In which: we discuss both her latest book, MEAN... MOODY... MAGNIFICIENT!: JANE RUSSELL AND THE MARKETING OF A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND (now available from University Press of Kentucky) and her first, ANN DVORAK: HOLLYWOOD'S FORGOTTEN REBEL. Along the way, we explore working with the two Howards – Hughes and Hawks –, the nature of celebrity in the studio system, Cary Grant ponies, the unsung heroes of libraries and research, treasures lost to a post office bin, the importance of not taking life for granted when you live with (or are living with someone living with) Type One Diabetes, final meals, and, most importantly, Ann Dvorak clubbing coyotes.Christina's bio: “Christina Rice is a writer, librarian, and archivist. She began collecting memorabilia relating to actress Ann Dvorak in the late 1990s which eventually lead her to document Dvorak's life and launch www.anndvorak.com. While working on Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel (University Press of Kentucky), she obtained an MLIS from San Jose State University and now oversees the photo collection at the Los Angeles Public Library. She has also written numerous issues of the My Little Pony comic book series (IDW Publishing). She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Joshua Hale Fialkov, their daughter, and two adorable dogs. Chapters: - Intro and Obligatory Canine Programming Notes: (00:00)- "I felt like I was writing about THE OUTLAW for months." (01:43)- "At the end of the day I do think it's amazing that she (Jane) actually had a career." (05:20)- "And unfortunately, Howard Hughes was not a director." (09:37)- "Probably my first long-term goal in my life was to be able to walk through Movieland Wax Museum and know who everyone was." (14:23) - Libraries + research + "Thank you, Greg!" (17:26)- "Somewhere sitting in some postal bin is a photo of Ann Dvorak and Nicholas Wade that should have been in my book..." (21:07) - "That book certainly took as long as it needed to take..." (25:47)- "With Ann, that book was me being a fan girl; with Jane, I can actually call myself an author now." (26:36)- "The way I wrote the Jane book was how I thought I would write the Ann book." (32:11)- "I love that I have a Cary Grant pony in it, and a Thomas Mitchell pony..." (34:30)- "That's what we had to do to get him the health insurance... it just speaks volumes about how screwed up our healthcare system is." (38:02) - "Understand that... she might be thinking, 'Gosh, I might not have him here as long as I was planning on' – and be sympathetic to that." (40:50) - "By the end of it all, I just judged everyone a lot less harshly than when I was young and maybe knew it all." (46:47)- "Where can people connect with you?" + "'Ann Dvorak Clubs Coyotes.'" (51:25)- Outro (53:43)Linkage: - You can connect with Christina via christinaricewrites.com and on Twitter, @christinarice. - Be sure to peruse her treasure troves of Ann Dvorak and Jane Russell material at anndvorak.com and janerussellbiography.com.- You can also follow Christina's Jane Russell postings on Instagram, @janerussellbio.Theme music, "Intersections," by Uziel Colón. All rights reserved.You can find previous episodes of THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE here and, if so inclined, sign up for my monthly+ newsletter, MacroParentheticals, here; I'm told that neither are terrible.

A version of this article has been published by rediff.com at https://www.rediff.com/news/column/india-blundered-along-like-others-did/20210623.htmThere is a loud chorus of voices blaming India for somehow messing up its response to the massive wave of Wuhan virus (Covid-19) infections that have devastated the country. Many articles and editorials have come out in both the Indian media and western media suggesting that the Government of India was negligent, indifferent, or both; in effect that it criminally abdicated its responsibility to the people of India. It is normal to expect these cavils from political parties and from the mainstream media. In India the MSM is highly compromised and infiltrated by vested interests, both from local political parties and from foreign powers set on propagating a narrative that leads, inevitably, to regime change, and, preferably, balkanization. One of these outbursts was an editorial in the Lancet, a British medical journal, that puts the blame squarely on the GoI (with no blame attributed to the State governments, despite the fact that health is a State responsibility). I used to be impressed by the Lancet as essentially the paper of record in medicine, but a massive screw-up last year in regards to HCQ made me change my mind, and realize that politics takes precedence over science.I wrote a long essay, Pious Frauds, https://openthemagazine.com/essay/pious-frauds/ about how credentialism rather than scientific truth is the hallmark of some of these storied institutions. The Lancet has been in the middle of several serious frauds, and it is astonishing that they still have a sterling reputation. So I would take their opinions with a large grain of salt, unless supported by impeccable data/evidence, which it is not in this case. Even purportedly neutral scientists and labs labor under agendas.Here’s more on bad faith from the Lancet. Much the same happened with another cheap, off-patent drug, Ivermectin. In both these cases, it was not at all convenient for Big Pharma that cheap, generic drugs made mostly in India would eat into their windfall profits. Let us note that Pfizer made a profit of $15 billion in 2020. Moderna made a profit for the first time in its history in Q1 2021. Also, Gilead Pharma’s Remdesivir, that was pushed as some sort of panacea, but in the event it proved mostly useless.Another case in point is the increasingly vocal allegation that the US government in effect colluded with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to do gain-of-function research in bat coronaviruses, which made them far more potent as well as transmissible to humans. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, and others look like they concealed conflicts of interest and deliberately propagated the narrative that the Wuhanvirus must have evolved naturally. Nicholas Wade’s seminal essay, republished by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, is a scathing indictment of the media and its omerta in burying an important story that somehow didn’t fit their narrative: the lab-origin hypothesis, and in particular the conflicts of interests. See https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038 and a video version at https://unherd.com/thepost/nicholas-wade-the-case-for-the-covid-lab-leak-theory/It looks increasingly likely that the Wuhanvirus was developed in a lab and was either leaked because of poor security in BSL-2 and BSL-3 labs, or, more alarmingly, that it was deliberately released as a bio-weapon. That is significant, for a variety of reasons: of most concern, the possibility of bio-warfare, which would be considered a crime against humanity, considering almost every country has signed treaties against it.On a more mundane level, it means that the Wuhanvirus outbreaks are in effect, force majeure, by definition things that cannot be defended against or predicted, as they are unpredictable and out of the expected set of possible scenarios. All of us, individuals and societies alike, make plans based on events with a non-trivial probability. When an extremely improbable event hits -- Nassim Taleb famously called these Black Swan events -- it is beyond the scope of our normal strategic planning. This goes hand-in-hand with the sensible engineering principle of built-in safety factors. For instance, an engineer designing anything, a bridge, an aircraft, or a circuit, will assume a certain level of uncertainty, and build in some slack say 30-50% over the designed load. This enables the system to be resilient in the face of a sudden surge or stress on the system. But there are practical limits to how much safety you can build in, because there is a cost to it. You can design in 100% or 200% margins of error, or more, but these start to get expensive. There is a tradeoff: so you take an informed decision about the expected value of the maximum stress. That is what you engineer the system for.A good example is the Fukushima reactor in Japan. It was (I may be a little bit off on the numbers, but bear with me for the principle) built to withstand an 8.5 earthquake on the Richter scale. There have been no quakes greater than 8.2 for 500 years, or since accurate records started being maintained. So that seems like a fair tradeoff on cost and risk. In fact, no project manager will approve the budget for reinforcing it to withstand an 8.8 quake.But what happens if you get hit with a 9.0 earthquake? The system is overloaded, and all bets are off. There is catastrophic failure.This is more of less what happened to every health system in the world when the Wuhavirus struck. India is no exception. Neither was the US when it was going through its peak: a year later, there are still hundreds of unclaimed bodies stored in refrigerated trucks; and there were mass graves with tens of bodies buried on an island near New York City. Nor was Italy, when people were dying in droves on ventilators. Nor was Osaka, more recently.There is more: Thailand, Vietnam and several other countries, which had escaped the calamity earlier, are now showing signs of new outbreaks. The virus continues to ravage the world. So the first point is that it was not humanly possible to fend off the lethal virus, in particular the 617 or Delta variant, which was far more infectious in the second wave: its R0 was greater than 3 or even touching 4 in many places, which implies a combinatorial explosion in terms of infections. The second point is that India was complacent about how it had escaped catastrophe, and ‘boasted’ about how it was “vaccine supplier to the world”. There is some quote from PM Modi at the World Economic Forum that India had defeated the virus; this is trotted out by all and sundry to show hubris on the part of the Indian government. This reminds me of the ritual in Silicon Valley companies called “the massacre of the innocent”. After every failed project, there is a meeting to apportion blame. Some suitable bystander is anointed as the scapegoat, and the entire thing is blamed on him (it’s usually a man). The actual culprits who messed up are given a pass, and are sometimes promoted. The point is that if somebody made a reasonable decision, one that was appropriate given the information on hand at the time, cannot be blamed for the circumstances changing later. Hindsight does not count. Yes, one should anticipate, even war-game, for various scenarios, but you cannot be expected to be omniscient. By finding a scapegoat (which, historically, comes from a Middle Eastern custom of actually blaming a goat for all the ills that befall the village, and forcing it to wander off into the desert) you allow the real culprits to escape. This is what happens all the time in business, and surely elsewhere too.Given the circumstances after the first wave subsided around the end of the year, it really did look like the strict lockdown had taken the wind out of the sails of the virus, and India was expecting to produce large volumes of Covishield and Covaxin over the first few months of 2021. So much so that India would give away some doses to small developing countries, and sell a lot more to the Covax alliance that would in turn distribute to the developing world.Production levels at least for Covishield were seriously affected by a February 2021 (yes, Biden era) ban on exports of critical components under the US Defense Production Act. Belatedly, on June 4th, these restrictions were lifted. Here’s the New Indian Express’ coverage:India was being a good global citizen in providing free vaccine to small countries; the contrast with big developed nations could not be more dramatic -- the latter were ordering 3 or 4 times the total doses they needed. In addition, the US was hoarding 45 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine which isn’t approved for use in that country. Classic dog in the manger syndrome. There are loud commitments from the G7 to provide a billion doses of vaccine free of cost to poor countries. This is good, but as Ronald Reagan once said, “Trust but verify”. I’d like to read the fine print. Does this mean a billion doses of mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna? What about the sovereign guarantees required by Pfizer as well as indemnity against any claims of side-effects? Who is going to provide that?To sum it up, I have to fall back upon something from the Christian Bible: “let he who hath not sinned cast the first stone”. Not to say that India couldn’t have handled the situation better, but on average, it didn’t do anywhere near as badly as the naysayers make it out. It blundered along, exactly as every other country did. 1592 words, June 12th, 2021 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

The global hunt for where the virus behind pandemic came from shows science, democracy and a sense of inquiry can overcome politics, ideology and omerta codes. Brought to you by  @Kia India  ----more----Read this week's National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/how-the-worlds-finest-minds-including-from-india-are-hunting-the-origin-of-coronavirus/676491/----more----Raed Nicholas Wade's article here: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/----more----Read Katherine Eban's article here: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins----more----Read Donald G. McNeil Jr. article here: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-lab-leak-theory-f4f88446b04d----more----Watch CTC episode here: https://youtu.be/OlO8sKRynBY----more----Watch Monali Rahalkar's interview with Jyoti Malhotra here: https://youtu.be/L59kEfJSvHc----more----Watch Off The Cuff with Nicholas Wade here : https://youtu.be/2RqWoiokVHM

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora's box at Wuhan? by Nicholas Wade https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake | Thomas Frank | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/01/wuhan-coronavirus-lab-leak-covid-virus-origins-china Making Sense Podcast Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse | Sam Harris https://samharris.org/podcasts/special-episode-engineering-apocalypse/ Dr. Tess Lawrie Discusses Ivermectin Metadata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQkoL2l3-gg Research for impact | E-BMC - The Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy https://www.e-bmc.co.uk/ https://c19ivermectin.com COVID, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century: DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret Weinstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_b4NRTB6k https://covid19criticalcare.com How Apple Stays on the Good Side of Chinese Authorities by Jack Nicas https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-privacy-censorship.html Up to 5 years prison for attending Tiananmen Massacre vigil, Hong Kong gov't warns - 1 year jail for publicising it by Tom Grundy https://hongkongfp.com/2021/05/29/up-to-5-years-prison-for-attending-tiananmen-massacre-vigil-hong-kong-govt-warns-1-year-jail-for-publicising-it/ Phoebe Kong on Twitter: "Hong Kong time 20:00, traditionally the time when the #June4 candlelight vigil started at Victoria Park: At least dozens switching on the light of their mobile phones at the gate of the now-sealed off venue. The light hasn't been extinguished. #HongKong #TiananmenVigil" https://twitter.com/phoebe_kongwy/status/1400789200446779396 The rapid rise of 'red tourism' in China by Maggie Hiufu Wong and Hannah Zhang https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/china-red-tourism-sites-cmd/index.html Lumber Is Crazy Expensive Right Now. Biden Is About To Make It Worse. by Eric Boehm https://reason.com/2021/06/02/lumber-is-crazy-expensive-right-now-biden-is-about-to-make-it-worse/ The future of management is teal by Frederic Laloux https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00344/ Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux, Ken Wilber (Forward) https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501 https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/resources.html Pathways to Liberation: Matrix of Self-assessment http://radicalcompassion.com/matrix https://streetgiraffes.com/matrix/ https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/post/london-real https://londonreal.tv/jamie-wheal-rethinking-god-sex-and-death-for-a-world-thats-lost-its-mind/ Unlock The Power of Your Mind for Peak Performance Today! Jamie Wheal & Lewis Howes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YrpThbWvIY bumper music Barenboim: Beethoven - Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYe27pJ2RBI

Nicholas Wade, former editorial writer, science reporter, and science editor for The New York Times, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the theory that COVID-19 originated in an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Quillette's Razib Khan speaks with veteran science writer Nicholas Wade about why so many scientists and journalists are now exploring theories about the origins of COVID-19 that, not so long, ago, were being dismissed as conspiracy theories.

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Quillette's Razib Khan speaks with veteran science writer Nicholas Wade about why so many scientists and journalists are now exploring theories about the origins of COVID-19 that, not so long, ago, were being dismissed as conspiracy theories.

On this episode of Going Underground, we firstly speak to Nicholas Wade, former Science Editor at the New York Times. He discusses the hypothesis that the coronavirus may have been manipulated and leaked from a laboratory, Covid-19's ability to target human cells from the very start, what makes Covid-19 unique in the same family of viruses, US funding for research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and much more! Finally, we speak to Victor Gao, Vice President of the Center for China and Globalisation. He discusses the Covid-19 lab leak theory and makes the case against why the claim is a baseless conspiracy, highlighting the fact Covid-19 samples have been discovered in many other parts of the world that predate the Wuhan outbreak, US funding for Chinese virus research, the closing of Chinese databases, and the absence of a direct species source for zoonotic transmission of the virus, the Uighur Tribunal and much more!

Fifteen months ago most of us knew very little about viruses. Today, spike proteins, mRNA, and monoclonal antibodies are household words.    Perhaps it's this new knowledge that has forced science and the media to confront the reality, long ignored or covered up, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Our new knowledge and vocabulary are now liberating tools. Investigative science journalist Nicholas Wade helped to turn the tide. His massive, in-depth article in Medium and in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists opened the floodgates on the discussion. Wade joins me on this week's WhoWhatWhy podcast.    My WhoWhatWhy conversation with Nicholas Wade:    

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.

[so many questions!] Brook Hines — pandemic gets personal. Forcing low-wage and unsafe work by cutting off unemployment benefit is cruel and stupid (i.e. totally unsurprising for Republican Governors). SARS-CoV-2 origin: US funded gain of function research in Wuhan. Everything we thought we knew about the virus might actually be wrong. Jeanine Molloff: The Justice Report on Vote Suppression, Constituional Crises, and COVID Karens. CITATIONS: Starving people to force them back to work, Common Dreams, Jake Johnson Biden cuts pretty much all campaign promises from next budget deal, Washington Post, Jeff Stein & Tyler Pager Did US-funded research in Wuhan cause the pandemic?, Current Affairs, Nathan J. Robinson Origin of COVID: did people or narture open Pandora's Box at Wuhan, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Nicholas Wade [this is the first and most important piece on pandemic origins] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Carter and Keri review Nicholas Wade's article concerning the origin of COVID-19 and Dr. Daszak's propaganda campaign designed to deflect attention away from the research he funded--and Dr. Fauci likely approved--at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Next, Keri uncovers a knitting abomination designed to further indoctrinate children into the radical gender deconstructionist orthodoxy. Finally, they emphasize the importance of community for individualists, rejecting the notion that communities necessitate any amount of collectivism. The video version of this episode is available here: https://unsafespace.com/ep0572 Links Referenced in the Show: Nicholas Wade Article on Origin of COVID: https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038 Bitty Bug "Soft Packer" Knitting Failure: https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1394029054735626240 Thanks for Watching! The best way to follow Unsafe Space, no matter which platforms ban us, is to visit: https://unsafespace.com While we're still allowed on YouTube, please don't forget to verify that you're subscribed, and to like and share this episode. You can find us there at: https://unsafespace.com/channel For episode clips, visit: https://unsafespace.com/clips Other video platforms on which our content can be found include: LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@unsafe BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/unsafespace/ Also, come join our community of dangerous thinkers at the following social media sites...at least until we get banned: Censorship-averse platforms: Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Locals: unsafespace.locals.com Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Censorship-happy platforms: Twitter: @unsafespace [currently suspended without any reason given] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/unsafespace Support the content that you consume by visiting: https://unsafespace.com/donate Finally, don't forget to announce your status as a wrong-thinker with some Unsafe Space merch, available at: https://unsafespace.com/shop

Nicholas Wade is a science writer, editor, and author who has worked on the staff of Nature, Science, and, for many years, the New York Times. Wade served as the staff writer for the Science Times section of The New York Times from 1982 to 2012. Recently Nicholas wrote a piece for “Medium” titled “Origin of Covid — Following the Clues” which highlights how Dr. Fauci had some involvement/responsibility for the origins of coronavirus. Mike talks to Nicholas Wade about the origins of Covid & how the virus has been so politicized in America.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here are the news items:Author and science journalist Nicholas Wade publishes a detailed Medium post making his case for the “lab escape” theory of SARS-CoV-2 origin.IBM has reached a new level of smallness in computer chip manufacture: 2 nanometers.Embattled Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) goes after Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in an op-ed for The Washington Post – is her combativeness a prelude to a presidential run?The Economist says “private equity is losing its mystique,” but John and Rebecca disagree. Corporate sponsors face pressure to pull out the 2022 Winter Olympics in response to Beijing's human rights abuses. None of them have budged, and John makes the case for why they may regret it.PLUS: John and Rebecca discuss SEC chair Gary Gensler's warning that his agency may take a stronger role regulating the markets and Rebecca makes her case for managing the exchanges as public utilities. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Julia and Massimo talk about the problems with "race" as a genetically-based concept. Starting with the controversial recent book "A Troublesome Inheritance," by NY Times science writer Nicholas Wade, they critique the statistical analyses that group people into racial categories, and Wade's (and others') attempts to attribute differences between rich and poor countries to innate racial differences. Sped up the speakers by ['1.11', '1.0']

In a recent article in the New York Times, Nicholas Wade reported that the American Anthropological Association had decided “to strip the word ‘science' from a statement of its long-range plan.” Is this just a reflection of the long standing division between physical and cultural anthropology or is there more here? The revised statement says that “the purposes of the association shall be to advance public understanding of humankind in all its aspects,” a wording that opens the possibility for cultural anthropologists to engage in public advocacy on behalf of cultures they are studying. So, what kind of discipline is anthropology, after all? And, more broadly, should scientists cross the line from research into public advocacy? Sped up the speakers by [1.0, 1.0060629026146268]

There are massive racial tensions being expressed in the US and around the world today. While I cannot fix centuries of injustice and oppression in a 15-minute YouTube video, there are answers to the theological and scientific questions people are asking. Some of the answers have been around for a long time. Others can only be addressed with modern genetics, which tell us clearly that there is no such things as 'race'. Biblically, all humans are equal in the eyes of God. Therefore, all humans should be equal in the eyes of the law, in education, and in economic opportunity. But, people are still selfish, biased, and bigoted. What we need is a good dose of the Gospel, because none of us deserve Heaven. Location: Rob's front porch, Hiram, Georgia. Links: The genetic history of the Israelite nation Extensive mixing among Israelites and non-Israelites in biblical history Racial mixing is perfectly biblical! Inbreeding and the origin of races Skin colour surprises Could Adam and Eve have given rise to all the ‘races'? A troubling thesis—Nicholas Wade pushes an old view of the origin of races (review of A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, by Nicholas Wade) Racial reconciliation: where do we begin? Was there a curse of Ham? "Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all." Col 3:11 This message by Voddie Baucham is well worth listening to. I discuss the 'Curse of Ham' in more depth in the episode Ancient History vs. the Table of Nations. Intro Music by Xihcsr Intro Graphics by MattWalkerVideo

The noise and devastation of Hurricane Haiyan: Andrew Harding on the first town in the Philippines to feel the force of the storm; Charles Haviland on how the furore surrounding the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka has pushed the Tamil north of the country into the news spotlight; Nicholas Wade travels to Jerusalem to hear people's views about the latest attempts to reach a Middle East peace settlement; Moldova and other former Soviet satellites are due to sign a trade deal with the EU and Tessa Dunlop's been finding out that not everyone there feels it's a good idea to turn their backs on Russia and Will Ross has been taking time off from the hard news of Nigeria to take a look at its thriving arts scene -- and a novel use for the xylophone! From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant