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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Take a look at the examples Antrophic provides for research that they blocked, and it's immediately clear almost much all of it is just basic research - but research that has gotten scary-sounding names via the media. An example, put Ebola genomes into Claude Science and ask for a TMRCA > blocked!

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

In 2026, there is no longer any lab leak hypothesis you can state consistently with the available evidence. Despite this, it has been the dominant media narrative for six years. Read my new data-driven investigation: www.protagonist-science.com/p/biased-med...

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Biased media coverage and the lab leak theory

Gain-of-function fearmongering and blame gets the glitzy NYT visual treatment as Republicans weaponize the lab leak theory again in attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is the most important thing Alina Chan has said or written.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 10/08/2026

You don't hate the corn biofuel subsidies enough

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Erik Ostrom @erikostrom.com · 28/07/2026

It irks me endlessly that we use “public safety” to mean policing and not traffic calming

Results from a poll question, “in your own words, what is the greatest source of risk to your safety in your daily life?” 34% of US adults mentioned “road-related accidents” vs 19% “crime and violence.”

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sick and tired of the government telling me how to live my life

How can you avoid this infection?
The CDC has two major tips.
First, avoid consuming food or water that may be contaminated with feces.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

An important point. RFK understandably gets more negative press but IMHO Jay Bhattacharya is just as dangerous—perhaps even more so—as he can hide behind RFK Jr, quietly aiding & abetting destruction I’ve written about this, with @jonshaffer.bsky.social, for @bmj.com: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Fauci Files Don’t Prove What She Says They Prove

Gabbard’s declassification theater is a case study in politicizing intelligence.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

america is an ideal worth fighting for

I'm American, but I talked to some Germans on a train platform in Chicago last weekend. They spoke very highly about their experience of buying legal weed, getting stoned and eating at Raising Canes.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 15/06/2026

In recent months, the U.S. government has arrested a dozen researchers, scientists, and virologists who work on infectious diseases. This is very bad. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-pro-pa...

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The Pro-Pandemic Administration

The Trump regime is spreading a noxious form of anti-science miasma

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The US government is arresting scientists on pretextual grounds to consolidate their grip on authoritarian power. This should scare the hell out of every single one of us. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

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Virology Research is Not a Crime

Free Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

They heard someone who has committed especially heinous crimes is in the building

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026

A few days back I saw a flurry of news about two "foreign" virologists being charged by a DoJ attorney for an alleged "conspiracy to smuggle in monkeypox" into the use. The decided language of the DoJ press release felt off to me, so I started investigating. Full story here 🔽 Thread 🧵 1/

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

credit where credit is due, getting your cult addicted to tallow before importing screwworms is a good bit

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is extremely chilling - virologists being targeted for what appears to be minor (if any) "offenses". We all know _why_ this is happening, so I'm not going to belabor that point - but I want to provide some context on the technical details. 🧵 www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH scientists plead not guilty to smuggling monkeypox viruses into U.S.

Defendants face prison time for criminal charges but samples may all have been inactivated and used for routine diagnostics

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

For "tighten" read "enforce" For "political oversight" read "political litmus tests" For "grantmaking" read "science & medical research funding" Put it all together: White House seeks to enforce political litmus tests for science & medical research funding.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

good morning Wisconsin needs an AD. These are unconventional times. They call for an unconventional leader. Me. www.extrapointsmb.com/p/wisconsin-...

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Wisconsin should hire me to be their next athletic director

Here's the cover letter I sent for the job.

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 28/05/2026

This administration's crazy conspiracy theories about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and their malicious targeting of virus experts, directly brought us to where we are today

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#LockdownJay www.nytimes.com./2026/05/21/u...

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say

Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“HHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2” This might be the most insane thing yet. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Virologist accused of starting COVID-19 will fight U.S. ban on funding

HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a “pattern of deception” in describing virus studies long before pandemic

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 30/04/2026

To contextualize further, this is a fascist movement built on spectacle and myth-making. As Trump approval ratings keep plummeting, these by now outdated Covid-19 lab-leak conspiracies & weaponizing government to raid Fauci's aide is an attempt to mobilize voters anew through old grievances.

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 17/04/2026

so if i am following this correctly... tom wilson pile driving artemi panarin is the reason msg is an omnipotent surveillance state

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 07/04/2026

In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995 🧪 #covidorigin

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Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part I)

Matt Ridley, global warming skeptic and co-author with Alina Chan of a book promoting a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, was invited by Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NI...

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I’m so proud of these dudes whose social media content I will never, ever check

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Grievance Is All You Need .... understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...

America’s science and medical research system may have been world-class before but did not have the institutional and legal safeguards to prevent a grievance-fueled takeover. This piece unpacks the COVID origins of that grievance and the imperatives for a transformation.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-188677740

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Marc Meneghini @marcmeneghini.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Jay Bhattacharya:science::Bari Weiss:journalism.

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

when that guy who said he'd make the figure for the group project really lets you down

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A graphic for our friends in Minnesota.

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 09/01/2026

At long last, a plausible explanation for the tight association between #keratin 15 and the epithelial progenitor epithelial cell state in skin is provided in a new study by Redmond, Coulombe et al. @umich.edu: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #StemCells

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train. One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

okay the kids are off to school so I filed dozens of FOIAs to learn what programs were selling the most booze the answer is obviously Wisconsin (by a LOT lmao) but here's who else cracked the top of the list. raw sales data and per capita data here: www.extrapointsmb.com/p/who-is-sel...

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Who is selling the most booze at football games this year? We FOIA'd to find out.

SURPRISE! Wisconsin football fans enjoy adult beverages, film at 11.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Not to belabor a "I told you so", but it's been clear for years that the whole "lab leak" discourse has absolutely nothing to do with a potential lab leak and everything to do with a broader anti-science agenda. I really, and truly, hope more scientists will realize this and take corrective action.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America. Congress must act now. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

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Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up

Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 08/08/2025

Like science integrity researchers denounced distortion of their work by the Trump administration, I'd like to hear academic lab leakers call out the destruction of US science under the pretext of the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

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Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health—Application of Impoundment Control Act to Availability of Funds for Grants

Congress appropriated amounts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out various research objectives for fiscal year 2025. In accordance...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

At some point, the Republican project shifted from attacking scientific consensus on particular subjects that ran counter to their political interests to trying to shut down all scientific inquiry wherever it might be headed.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger. This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust. Now, we respond 👇 theconversation.com/how-conspira...

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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/07/2025

Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling Situation Nonviolently

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 18/06/2025

More out of #NIH today, announcing termination of anything they call gain-of-function. I can only imagine this will be used as an excuse to kill all manner of virology and immunology programs. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Please REPORT any such termination: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

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NOT-OD-25-127: Implementation Update: Terminating or Suspending Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research in Accordance with the Executive Order on Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Implementation Update: Terminating or Suspending Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research in Accordance with the Executive O...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I think the targeting of scientific advisory boards—vaccine panel, the NCI scientific board, etc—is instructive. They are easier to fire than gov employees, and RFK et al can claim they need to eliminate or get "fresh eyes" or whatever on the issue. And then they can construct an alternate reality.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It's being portrayed as an attempt to wipe out US crops, but the disease is already there which is why it needs to be researched. They may have broken import rules, but this would be a weird form of bioterrorism. www.ars.usda.gov/midwest-area...

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Fusarium head blight in the U.S. : USDA ARSResearch : USDA ARSLock

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A potent mixture of bio-scare and yellow-peril here, so far as I can tell. Foreign scientists take Fusarium graminearum spores to a lab where they've been studying Fusarium graminearum for decades. To find ways of tackling the crop disease. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This month's bonus episode is about the rise of the lab leak theory from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by prominent liberal journalists.

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The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream | If Books Could Kill

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