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COVID origin

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 12, 2023
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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Trust the Science! chronicles: The origin of COVID and Wuhan

Denyse O'Leary
February 12, 2023
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Wade: Virologists like Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 5, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Vox on why you can’t trust Big Science

Denyse O'Leary
October 5, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
If you “trust” these science honchoes at all after this episode… well, COVID-19 is not as serious a threat as wilful stupidity. But going forward, another question looms: How much of “settled science” that has never been subjected to this type of careful outside scrutiny would likewise collapse? What ELSE don’t we know and what difference would it make in various science arenas? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 21, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
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At Lancet: An appeal for an honest debate in science about the origin of COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
September 21, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
We wish Jacques van Helden and his co-authors good luck getting an honest discussion going. It’s not like China is going to become transparent anytime soon. In any event, few virus researchers would want to be told bluntly that, because gain-of-function research in viruses can go badly wrong, they now face controls. Some nations wouldn’t heed the controls. And nature never responds - on her own - to calls for clarification. Most likely, whatever happened with COVID will need to happen again a few more times until a pattern develops. Then we’ll see. It doesn’t help that Lancet itself became politicized in recent years. Read More ›