I listened to that episode yesterday and spent some time reading the Nicholson Baker article referenced:
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html -S On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 8:26 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Colleagues, > > > > I am hoping to entrap one or more of you into listening to > https://www.jimruttshow.com/currents-curtis-yarvin/ and helping me to > resolve my ambivalence about it. Yarvin seems to be some sort of a > libertarian, an attribution I make from his smug dismissiveness and his > inability to speak without making reference to bowel and sexual function in > every sentence. Also, his joy in goading us BHL’s by such assertions as, > “FDR was a much worse liar than Donald Trump.” On the other hand, his > diagnosis of the deep state and conflicts of interest that bind “experts’ > are deeply troubling to me. He seems to make an argument for authoritarian > government structures, praising the organization of the Manhattan project > with that of NSF. Thus his take on FDR is that he was not a successful > democratic leader but a skillful autocrat. He argues plausibly that the > covid pandemic was the result of a US funded program Chinese research > program on SARS-related bat viruses when the infected ferrets there were > working on were sold to the wet-market by the person who was supposed to > euthanize them. The idea here is that the SARS program was continued, not > because it was still needed, but because of the institutional and financial > momentum provided by the US government for the Chinese Research. I would > be much more convinced by what he is saying if he didn’t take so much > pleasure in saying it. > > > > Nick > > > > Nick Thompson > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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