Philipp Markolin
@philippmarkolin.bsky.social
Science blogger and communicator:
www.protagonist-science.com
Mein investigatives Buch über die Insider-Geschichte hinter der COVID-19 Ursprungskontroverse jetzt exklusiv auf Deutsch erhältlich:
www.lab-leak-fever.com
www.protagonist-science.com
Mein investigatives Buch über die Insider-Geschichte hinter der COVID-19 Ursprungskontroverse jetzt exklusiv auf Deutsch erhältlich:
www.lab-leak-fever.com
Pinned
Lab Leak Fever
The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society
www.protagonist-science.com
Happy August.
Here is a little surprise for everybody: The english version of my book is finally available. You can get it on Amazon. You can also read and listen to it on my blog, where I will release the book as freely accessible serialized novel.
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Here is a little surprise for everybody: The english version of my book is finally available. You can get it on Amazon. You can also read and listen to it on my blog, where I will release the book as freely accessible serialized novel.
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www.protagonist-science.com/p/lab-leak-f...
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right wingers in 2026
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
right wingers in 2026
Nothing like some peace walking along a lone mountain road in the winter 🧊🧊🧊
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Nothing like some peace walking along a lone mountain road in the winter 🧊🧊🧊
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We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
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Bari Weiss still having the temerity to call herself a "centrist" after openly acting as Trumpworld's highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist is exactly why they gave her the roles of highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist.
December 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Bari Weiss still having the temerity to call herself a "centrist" after openly acting as Trumpworld's highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist is exactly why they gave her the roles of highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist.
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i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil
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Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
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And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.
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A reminder that if you hate Substack — which I post to bc I want to reach readers across the political spectrum, & their reshare functions help do that — you can subscribe to my Ghost newsletter. I don’t paywall my writing so Ghost costs me money. www.reneediresta.com/newsletter/
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December 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A reminder that if you hate Substack — which I post to bc I want to reach readers across the political spectrum, & their reshare functions help do that — you can subscribe to my Ghost newsletter. I don’t paywall my writing so Ghost costs me money. www.reneediresta.com/newsletter/
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I wrote about how X as an online rumor mill that feeds the hard right propaganda machine, destroying lives in the process.
Ben Shapiro and others in the movement have started to realize that it’s dangerous and bad — because it’s negatively impacting them too, now…
Ben Shapiro and others in the movement have started to realize that it’s dangerous and bad — because it’s negatively impacting them too, now…
December 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I wrote about how X as an online rumor mill that feeds the hard right propaganda machine, destroying lives in the process.
Ben Shapiro and others in the movement have started to realize that it’s dangerous and bad — because it’s negatively impacting them too, now…
Ben Shapiro and others in the movement have started to realize that it’s dangerous and bad — because it’s negatively impacting them too, now…
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The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship.
But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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Saying bad ideas are bad isn't censorship
The core goal is a free and fair public debate, and billionaires promoting their favored speech tilts the free marketplace of ideas.
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship.
But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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By this point all (semi-)decent countries should have travel advisories against going to USA
December 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
By this point all (semi-)decent countries should have travel advisories against going to USA
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Very good statement from the Cambridge Summit organizers.
December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Very good statement from the Cambridge Summit organizers.
EU to Trump censorship regime:
F** you. We protect our citizens.
F** you. We protect our citizens.
Statement der EU Kommission. Via @fsteiner.bsky.social.
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
EU to Trump censorship regime:
F** you. We protect our citizens.
F** you. We protect our citizens.
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Statement der EU Kommission. Via @fsteiner.bsky.social.
Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals
The European Commission strongly condemns the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton.\nFreedom of expression is
ec.europa.eu
December 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Anbefaler denne grundige debunkingen av lab-leak teoriene som ble.a. Sigrid Bratlie, @civita.bsky.social og @langsiktsenter.bsky.social har spredd i Norge
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
COVID Origins: Debunking the Grift, Pseudoscience, and Politics of the Lab Leak Theory
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Anbefaler denne grundige debunkingen av lab-leak teoriene som ble.a. Sigrid Bratlie, @civita.bsky.social og @langsiktsenter.bsky.social har spredd i Norge
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
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youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
COVID Origins: Debunking the Grift, Pseudoscience, and Politics of the Lab Leak Theory
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The Great Pandemic Rewrite minimized COVID, made it a lab leak, and attacked interventions.
Now it is squarely focused on the vaccine— and the math doesn’t hold up. John Ioannidis has an order of magnitude problem.
#CDC #vaccines 🧪 #episky #medsky
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
Now it is squarely focused on the vaccine— and the math doesn’t hold up. John Ioannidis has an order of magnitude problem.
#CDC #vaccines 🧪 #episky #medsky
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
The Great Pandemic Rewrite Comes for Vaccines
John Ioannidis and the Order-of-Magnitude Problem That Reveals the Game
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The Great Pandemic Rewrite minimized COVID, made it a lab leak, and attacked interventions.
Now it is squarely focused on the vaccine— and the math doesn’t hold up. John Ioannidis has an order of magnitude problem.
#CDC #vaccines 🧪 #episky #medsky
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
Now it is squarely focused on the vaccine— and the math doesn’t hold up. John Ioannidis has an order of magnitude problem.
#CDC #vaccines 🧪 #episky #medsky
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
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With a detailed shoutout to our Anti-Autocracy Handbook sks.to/autocracy 2/2
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December 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
With a detailed shoutout to our Anti-Autocracy Handbook sks.to/autocracy 2/2
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Superb video by @simonoxfphys.com Simon Clark on how truth on climate change is twisted and dismantled by Trump administration: www.youtube.com/watc.... 1/2
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The misinformation situation is worse than you think
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Make your donation have the maximum impact: https://givewell.org (pick YOUTUBE and then Simon Clark at checkout)
The handbook: https://zenodo.org/records/15696097
Become a patron at http://www.patreon.com/simonoxfphys
REFERENCES
1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250
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December 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Superb video by @simonoxfphys.com Simon Clark on how truth on climate change is twisted and dismantled by Trump administration: www.youtube.com/watc.... 1/2
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Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when
I say that as someone who has started newsrooms from scratch sometimes with two people - if you’re doing your job correctly you will need a lawyer because the first thing rich people do when you write something they don’t like is threaten you legally. It’s cheap for them and expensive for you
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when
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I’m co-organizing a neuroscience and AI meeting in Europe next year.
To all European scientists: sorry for this guy, the Trump NIH head.
He’s an apparatchik pushing American rightwing billionaires’ political agenda, if that helps take the sting out.
To all European scientists: sorry for this guy, the Trump NIH head.
He’s an apparatchik pushing American rightwing billionaires’ political agenda, if that helps take the sting out.
You can't make this shit up. The man has the charisma of a hung-over JD Vance.
December 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I’m co-organizing a neuroscience and AI meeting in Europe next year.
To all European scientists: sorry for this guy, the Trump NIH head.
He’s an apparatchik pushing American rightwing billionaires’ political agenda, if that helps take the sting out.
To all European scientists: sorry for this guy, the Trump NIH head.
He’s an apparatchik pushing American rightwing billionaires’ political agenda, if that helps take the sting out.
Europe needs to protect its citizens against these acts of retaliation targeting its law-abiding democratic citizens.
Anybody involved in this drummed-up nonsense & attack on EU sovernity from the US state department needs to be called in for hearings in EU and/or sanctioned.
Anybody involved in this drummed-up nonsense & attack on EU sovernity from the US state department needs to be called in for hearings in EU and/or sanctioned.
Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Europe needs to protect its citizens against these acts of retaliation targeting its law-abiding democratic citizens.
Anybody involved in this drummed-up nonsense & attack on EU sovernity from the US state department needs to be called in for hearings in EU and/or sanctioned.
Anybody involved in this drummed-up nonsense & attack on EU sovernity from the US state department needs to be called in for hearings in EU and/or sanctioned.
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Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot
December 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot