RT @sapinker: The degeneration of Nature, Science, NEJM, and Scientific American into woke propaganda dispensers (and their refusal to publ…

Nella mia esperienza personale, Alessandra Libutti ha avuto il fusibile molto, molto corto. Mi ha bloccato subito. Arrogante.

Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill: Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now: wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies. . . This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often twice as fatal. And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’. It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed their due diligence to the god of decolonisation. And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none of them foresaw it. . . . The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing. . . . The media is the only institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly. Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the media found it. I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked, black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised according to the accident of our race. Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

What caused the COVID-19 pandemic? I was recently invited by @tngtech to speak about the molecular and circumstantial evidence surrounding the origin of the pandemic at a fantastic conference (bigtechday.com/). Watch the talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=YcdhIPxd… Thank you again for the invitation - and for having the courage to make room for a debate that could ensure our survival, but that almost no one else in Germany dares to host.

Fourteen years ago today, our lab published the first definitive evidence that simply restricting when mice eat—without changing the amount or quality of food—can deliver profound health benefits. That discovery helped launch a new era of circadian nutrition research and paved the way for what is now widely known as intermittent fasting. Thank you @Cell_Metabolism @salkinstitute cell.com/cell-metabolism/ful…

I scored 87% on the Burnham Liberal Test (1964) — "Full-Blown Liberal." 39 questions from Suicide of the West. Take it yourself: burnham.millermanschool.com

Pre-pandemic artificial MERS analog of polyfunctional SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 furin cleavage site domain is unique among spike proteins of genus Betacoronavirus bmcgenomdata.biomedcentral.c…

Liz Cheney: “Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk have made clear who they are. Only fools—or Kremlin tools—would abandon NATO, side with Russia, and demand Ukraine surrender in the face of Putin’s brutal aggression.” RETWEET if you stand with @Liz_Cheney against Donald Trump!

BREAKING NEWS: Judge John Coughenour came out with the following statement after issuing a preliminary injunction on Trumps executive order for ending birthright citizenship. "It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain… There are moments in the world's history where people look back and ask, ‘Where were the lawyers, where were the judges?" Coughenour said. "In these moments, the rule of law becomes especially vulnerable. I refuse to let that beacon go dark today." Thank you, Judge Coughenour! RT if you agree with him! 💙

Here's an excellent thread about Lysenko, the deadliest scientist who killed millions of people via starvation by applying pseudoscience to farming practices. We cannot let history repeat itself. Please share. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1…

“Metabolism” rules biology… including your appetite, satiety, and how many calories you burn. Anyone who thinks these are unrelated to metabolism clearly doesn’t understand metabolism.

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If this post gets to 500 RTs, I'll share a mysterious Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) project conducted on behalf of the Chinese military.

I find the Triglyceride to HDL ratio to be a really useful proxy for insulin sensitivity and CVD risk as shown here in a slide by @FatEmperor This ratio responds significantly to cutting the carbs @DrScottMurray @DoctorTro

Our paper has been nominated for "2023 Best Paper Award" by @Nutrients_MDPI On: Why a low-carbohydrate diet should be one option in the US Dietary Guidelines. Cited now nearly 30,000 times. Support us with a RT! 🙏 mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/10/329…

After scandalous facts about how @amnesty ignored Amnesty Ukraine protests and prepared and published the Ukraine report without consultation with Kyiv and against its expert advice: #AgnesCallamardMustResign Like, if you agree. Retweet if you think it should have been done!

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