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It’s really remarkable how thin the bench of climate change deniers is and how deep the poverty of their arguments. They haven’t come up with anything new in decades and can only fall back on conspiracies to explain their lack of success.
Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It’s really remarkable how thin the bench of climate change deniers is and how deep the poverty of their arguments. They haven’t come up with anything new in decades and can only fall back on conspiracies to explain their lack of success.
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🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"?
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"?
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
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We’ve identified a highly divergent betacoronavirus from South American bat that encodes a functional furin cleavage site.
Another fascinating reminder of how diverse coronavirus evolution is in wildlife reservoirs.
#Virology #VirusEvolution #Bats #Coronavirus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Another fascinating reminder of how diverse coronavirus evolution is in wildlife reservoirs.
#Virology #VirusEvolution #Bats #Coronavirus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American bats
Bats are natural reservoirs for a wide range of RNA viruses. Members of the genus Betacoronavirus, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome...
www.biorxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
We’ve identified a highly divergent betacoronavirus from South American bat that encodes a functional furin cleavage site.
Another fascinating reminder of how diverse coronavirus evolution is in wildlife reservoirs.
#Virology #VirusEvolution #Bats #Coronavirus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Another fascinating reminder of how diverse coronavirus evolution is in wildlife reservoirs.
#Virology #VirusEvolution #Bats #Coronavirus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Damn, this is just…devastating.
Kinda shocked WaPo published it.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Kinda shocked WaPo published it.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | In her new book, Biden’s former press secretary lets Democrats have it
Karine Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a critique of Biden and the Democrats that is outdated, impractical and driven more by personal grievance than policy.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Damn, this is just…devastating.
Kinda shocked WaPo published it.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Kinda shocked WaPo published it.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics
This year's Nobel Prize in physics was all about building the first sustainable macroscopic system to exhibit quantum behavior.
Here's the science behind the prize, and why it matters.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum
This year's Nobel Prize in physics was all about building the first sustainable macroscopic system to exhibit quantum behavior.
Here's the science behind the prize, and why it matters.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum
Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025's Nobel Prize in physics
Quantum mechanics was first discovered on small, microscopic scales. 2025's Nobel Prize brings the quantum and large-scale worlds together.
bigthink.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics
This year's Nobel Prize in physics was all about building the first sustainable macroscopic system to exhibit quantum behavior.
Here's the science behind the prize, and why it matters.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum
This year's Nobel Prize in physics was all about building the first sustainable macroscopic system to exhibit quantum behavior.
Here's the science behind the prize, and why it matters.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum
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My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
April 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
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Jesse Bloom replied to our critique by painting Wang et al.'s data as unreliable. To do so, he once again omitted a critical piece of information that contradicted his narrative: five control samples had been mixed into a single one.
This is part of a concerning pattern of misrepresentation: ▫️1/4
This is part of a concerning pattern of misrepresentation: ▫️1/4
![Composite slide:
What Bloom (2025) wrote:
“Specifically, the respiratory virus sample controls are described by Wang et al. (2020b) as being collected from “November 2019 to January 2020,” but all five have a BioSample collection date of 2020 January 15 (Table 2).
[screenshot of Table2]
What Wang et al.’s text actually was:
“ To verify the performance of this panel in NTS, we selected five throat samples positive for five different viruses as mentioned above (influenza A virus, influenza B virus, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and rhinovirus). The five samples were mixed to create a mock virus community and used to test the NTS virus detection capacity.
What Wang et al.’s data were:
[screenshot of the data showing two points and the mention "mixed sample"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yqxcc5ayxllwkvel4narbha4/bafkreiajsyuyp5qd7u7aldqsxen7ptrffws76hayvqyr5xtmgp7trvzd4m@jpeg)
June 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Jesse Bloom replied to our critique by painting Wang et al.'s data as unreliable. To do so, he once again omitted a critical piece of information that contradicted his narrative: five control samples had been mixed into a single one.
This is part of a concerning pattern of misrepresentation: ▫️1/4
This is part of a concerning pattern of misrepresentation: ▫️1/4
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Coda -- here are some annotated figures summarizing our dataset and some of our results that might be helpful
April 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Coda -- here are some annotated figures summarizing our dataset and some of our results that might be helpful