2/2 Some areas do still need better quality control and better transparency. But the last thing we need is what's in this executive order - giving government officials power to decide what's not up to standards.

3/ As @neilshubin.bsky.social says, it's not a de-extinction but a new animal, and there could be more gene-edited animals coming. That's what we should be discussing.

3/Dogs supplied the egg cells and gestated the pups. The feat started out as an impressive act of media manipulation, with the company giving exclusive access to just two publications. When others got wind of the story the publicity campaign went south fast.

2/ It was an impressive feat of gene editing, done on grey wolf DNA to look more like what the researchers surmise the dire wolf looked like.....

2/2 it won't be a mammoth. At best it would be a genetically modified elephant. I talked with @artcaplan.bsky.social about the many ethical problem involved. Then I described a few better ways to protect or enhance the natural world if you happen to have a few hundred billion $$ to spend.

2/2 I drew on insights from @pauloffit.bsky.social , @adamgaffney.bsky.social , Duane Wesemann of @harvardmed.bsky.social and John C. Moore of Cornell Medicine.

Covid vaccines do have some side effects, and it's important to keep investigating safety, but so far the evidence points away from a problem with leftover spike protein. The study found exceedingly tiny amounts, and levels were undetectable in most people with symptoms.

Immunologist outside the Yale group say the data fail to support the conclusion that leftover vaccine-induced spike proteins are associated with patients' symptoms. The idea that the symptoms are part of a syndrome is an assumption, not a conclusion.

I'm confused. Can you explain who this fact checker is and why and how she's blackmailing this guy. It sounds like an interesting story, but I'm not quite following it.

3/3 So don't be surprised if we see many more warnings in the near future. It doesn't mean the threat has increased. It's decreased - early detection means we could evacuate people if needed. Thank to @planet4589.bsky.social and MIT's Richard Binzel for helping bring me up to date.

2/3 Twenty years ago scientists were crying out for the tools to track asteroids and start studying how to defect them. Now they have multiple tracking systems, with two new ones scheduled to start observing soon. And NASA has even experimented with asteroid deflection with the DART mission.

3/3 Evolution has stumbled on a new variant, D1.1, which might cause more severe disease in humans. But there's still plenty that can be done to mitigate the threat to us and to the egg industry.

2/3 Wild geese and ducks are spreading the disease through their droppings. These migratory birds are changing their flight patters and settling more near farms and suburbs. infectious dust might bring the virus into farms

Great piece and I look forward to hearing the interview. I'm not sure what the complainers meant by "hilarious" but I've heard from more than my share of cranks. They're usually trying to distort science to conform to their religious beliefs.