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On the lab-leak hypothesis
One problem with the debate over the novel coronavirus’s “lab leak” origin hypothesis is a problem I’m starting to see in quite a few other areas of pandemic-related analysis and discussion. It’s that no one will say why others are … Continue reading
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Tagged absence of evidence, COVID-19 pandemic, DRASTIC, journalism, Katherine Eban, lab-leak hypothesis, Newsweek, Nicholas Wade, novel coronavirus, science communication, scientific illiberalism, The Seeker, Wuhan Institute of Virology, zoonotic-spillover hypothesis
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IBT’s ice-nine effect on Newsweek
In his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut describes a fictitious substance called ice-nine: a crystalline form of water that converts all the liquid water it comes into contact with into more ice-nine. This is the sort of effect the International Business … Continue reading
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Tagged BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed model, Cat's Cradle, Columbia Journalism Review, CPM model, Daniel Tovrov, Facebook, Google, Google Pagerank, ice-nine, International Business Times, Kurt Vonnegut, late capitalism, Newsweek, search engine
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