[FRIAM] The+Jim+Rutt+Show

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Thanks, Steve,  N

 

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 11:19 PM
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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 <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com> > wrote:

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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. 

 

Nick 

 

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