[FRIAM] The+Jim+Rutt+Show

[Stephen Guerin]

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

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On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 8:26 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Colleagues,
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> 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.
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> Nick
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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