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I can't believe iPhone chips, almost the supreme luxury good, are considered worthy of Federal subsidies. Surely a better path would have been to slap imported silicon with tarriff…

I have two severely autistic children who cannot talk and who need lifelong care. That's the REAL autism, the one Leo Kanner identified in 1943. Not the rebranded Aspergers with ex…

Here's an example: The LGB Alliance in U.K. are routinely smeared as a 'hate' group for taking a dim view of male rapists in female prisons, males competing in female sports, and s…

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When my mother died she had been completely unconscious for a whole week, but just 30 minutes before she died she opened her eyes and looked around the room. I was later told by a …

You must know that virologists routinely "serial passage" viruses through animal hosts? Evolving a candidate virus "through multiple, probably dozens of hosts" is what virology lab…

Same here. Twenty-one years since my last cigarette now, and it's entirely thanks to the late great Allen Carr - may God rest and nourish his immortal soul. (It was my 9th or 10th …

Guided introspection. Despite not considering myself alcoholic, my wife nagged me into going to local Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings. I came to realise that I had somehow slipp…

Having kids. I'm sure it's great for normies but my kids are mentally disabled and being their dad is grief and heartache without end. I have no close family to share any of it wit…

Does anyone (UK) even offer fixed rate more than 5 years ahead?

"Taking full precautions against airborne transmission would require major changes at hospitals" Major changes such as, er, occasionally opening a window to let some fresh air in? …

"Verified by a human" - and that human will be an overworked, underpaid, overseas subcontractor who may well have an incentive to mash the "Confirm match" button from time to time …

I thought Intentional Programming would be big by now : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that today is Patch Tuesday. :-|

Lab escapes are not that rare, SARS-1 is known to have escaped 6 times. It also doesn't matter how safe and secure the WIV's BSL-4 lab is, since coronavirus research was done at BS…

The furin cleavage site in SARS-Cov-2 does not appear in any other SARS-related beta coronavirus (sarbecovirus).

SARS-CoV-2 is spectacularly well-adapted for infecting humans, the original SARS and other animal-origin viruses are not. The idea that this thing sprang out of the wild, in Wuhan …

This is why I feel the international community should somehow come together to agree to indemnify China against all types of future sanctions or prosecutions etc re Covid-19. The c…

Re. Novichok, if there wasn't video evidence of two known Russian agents the Porton Down theory might be more plausible. But Porton Down says they have nothing to do with it and we…

There is no direct evidence of zoonotic origin either. An entire year on and we don't even know the intermediate species, let alone where crossover occurred. With the original SARS…

Was it really? Where can I see proof of this?

Well quite. You'd think for all the screeching of "incitement" the news coverage would be able to find one 5 second clip or tweet or something where he'd actually done it. It begga…

That article is one of the dumbest articles I've read in an unusually dumb year. Why do these journalists think we should all only ever be spoon-fed inoffensive, carefully-curated …

I had a year or two of chronic lower back pain and thought it was just the price of getting older (also mid 40s) and living a largely sedentary life. Then I started taking a Vitami…