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Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Yeah but why are people talking about it again

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Stairmaster posted:

Yeah but why are people talking about it again

Charles Lieber was arrested in January 2020 in connection with work he was doing in Wuhan for George Church and Martin Nowak, geneticists who received 6.5 million USD from Jeffrey Epstein as a grant to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, whose research topics included virus dynamics

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

Stairmaster posted:

Yeah but why are people talking about it again

they didnt read the thread so they never interrogated the idea enough to discover is basically a literary device

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

Is that implying Epstein's deadman switch was covid release? :sickos:

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


gradenko_2000 posted:

Charles Lieber was arrested in January 2020 in connection with work he was doing in Wuhan for George Church and Martin Nowak, geneticists who received 6.5 million USD from Jeffrey Epstein as a grant to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, whose research topics included virus dynamics

please don't do this to me. this is too much

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
I loving love this thread

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

DOMELORD420 posted:

im glad i looked up the Peter Scully wiki before looking any further, I don't need any of that in my life. my only remaining curiosity is what genre of music is this "pesudoscorpion" album?

there's something thats supposed to be it on youtube and it just sounds like lovely trap music

nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Charles Lieber was arrested in January 2020 in connection with work he was doing in Wuhan for George Church and Martin Nowak, geneticists who received 6.5 million USD from Jeffrey Epstein as a grant to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, whose research topics included virus dynamics

the gently caress

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

gradenko_2000 posted:

Charles Lieber was arrested in January 2020 in connection with work he was doing in Wuhan for George Church and Martin Nowak, geneticists who received 6.5 million USD from Jeffrey Epstein as a grant to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, whose research topics included virus dynamics

welp that's another crack ping, I stand corrected

MysteriousStranger
Mar 3, 2016
My "vacation" is a euphemism for war tourism in Ukraine for some "bloody work" to escape my boring techie job and family.

Ask me about my warcrimes.

DirtyRobot posted:

Nice, thanks. I'm working through the Talbot now, but haven't gotten to that part. I'll check out the Ganser afterwards.

For Operation Paperclip, Annie Jacobsen's book was pretty okay. Not a lot on NATO, but it has... visceral evidence that completely refute any talking points that claim anything like, "well they weren't the ones charges with war crimes and there's no evidence they were the 'bad ones' so it's fine." No, these were the worst of the worst psychos and the US knew exactly what they were doing. That's the whole point of the "paperclip" being added to the file, to signal that stuff needed to be covered up.

The entire post WW2 era was a giant rush between NATO and the USSR to scoop up all the worst fucks on the face of the planet for their "for science" and "for medicine" programs, not just Nazis but also poo poo like Japan Unit 731. Nobody loving looks good. It's not just the US, the glorious socialist and communist nations also did the same poo poo. Everybody looks horrible.

So there is a giant we won ww2............. modern medicine and science.

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

gradenko_2000 posted:

Charles Lieber was arrested in January 2020 in connection with work he was doing in Wuhan for George Church and Martin Nowak, geneticists who received 6.5 million USD from Jeffrey Epstein as a grant to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, whose research topics included virus dynamics

plz link to related reading materials

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


MysteriousStranger posted:

The entire post WW2 era was a giant rush between NATO and the USSR to scoop up all the worst fucks on the face of the planet for their "for science" and "for medicine" programs, not just Nazis but also poo poo like Japan Unit 731. Nobody loving looks good. It's not just the US, the glorious socialist and communist nations also did the same poo poo. Everybody looks horrible.

So there is a giant we won ww2............. modern medicine and science.

i mean, even before ww2 american intelligence was teaming up with nazi intelligence to work against the communists. one side clearly had (and still has!) views that align better with nazi ideology. i don't think your equivalence holds water here

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Marzzle posted:

plz link to related reading materials

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jeffrey-epstein-science-financier-changes-the-course-of-evolution-at-harvard-211218581.html
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/27/harvard-closes-evolution-center-after-finding-connections-jeffrey-epstein
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-scientist-george-church-talks-about-accepting-donations-from-jeffrey-epstein-60-minutes-2019-12-08/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/2/13/doe-investigation-foreign-governments/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00291-2

gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 17:19 on Jun 3, 2021

MysteriousStranger
Mar 3, 2016
My "vacation" is a euphemism for war tourism in Ukraine for some "bloody work" to escape my boring techie job and family.

Ask me about my warcrimes.

Hooplah posted:

i mean, even before ww2 american intelligence was teaming up with nazi intelligence to work against the communists. one side clearly had (and still has!) views that align better with nazi ideology. i don't think your equivalence holds water here

And for a while in WW2 the communists were allied with the Nazis so... I don't think yours holds up either.

Everyone cashed in when they could and got out when they can. That's how nations work, that's how groups work, that's how communal efforts work. A person can be moral, a group cannot.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

The Soviets at least had the good sense to keep all their rehabilitated Nazis on the dl in work camps, while Werner von Braun is still a hero of American aerospace.

MysteriousStranger posted:

And for a while in WW2 the communists were allied with the Nazis so...

How's the tweeting been lately, OmniLiberal?

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

gradenko_2000 posted:

Charles Lieber was arrested in January 2020 in connection with work he was doing in Wuhan for George Church and Martin Nowak, geneticists who received 6.5 million USD from Jeffrey Epstein as a grant to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, whose research topics included virus dynamics

:eyepop:

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
poo poo I gotta go to bed or I'd add to the coming pile on

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor


gracias

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

lmoa just lmao if 3.6M deaths happened because Epstein couldn't help trying to get his egg-shaped dick wet

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

gradenko_2000 posted:

Charles Lieber was arrested in January 2020 in connection with work he was doing in Wuhan for George Church and Martin Nowak, geneticists who received 6.5 million USD from Jeffrey Epstein as a grant to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, whose research topics included virus dynamics

Delta-Wye has issued a correction as of 17:55 on Jun 3, 2021

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor


is there a place to get info about lieber's relationship with church and nowak? not really seeing much in the links but I may be overlooking it

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008



lol

ram dass in hell
Dec 29, 2019



:420::toot::420:

MysteriousStranger posted:


Everyone cashed in when they could and got out when they can. That's how nations work, that's how groups work, that's how communal efforts work. A person can be moral, a group cannot.

lol what the gently caress is this poo poo you war criminal

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


leon black absolutely has seen that no limits fun poo poo

MysteriousStranger
Mar 3, 2016
My "vacation" is a euphemism for war tourism in Ukraine for some "bloody work" to escape my boring techie job and family.

Ask me about my warcrimes.

ram dass in hell posted:

lol what the gently caress is this poo poo you war criminal

people personally condemened what happened in ww2 but all nation states swooped in gained from it and then lied about it, or would you like it in crayon?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

The nature of Man is in a word: war.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

MysteriousStranger posted:


A person can be moral, a group cannot.

Thankfully this attitude is never ever used to justify continued horrors and atrocities.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

MysteriousStranger posted:

people personally condemened what happened in ww2 but all nation states swooped in gained from it and then lied about it, or would you like it in crayon?

neither the US nor USSR were nation states. France and the UK were still explicitly empires as well. Don't use bigger words to try to seem smarter.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
i keep being told there is nothing suspicious happening in BSL setups in china. if the prc isn't doing some sketchy research on the downlow, why do they need to keep stealing samples & materials?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...igate-1.5609582

also, is it racist to ask such an obvious question??!?

ram dass in hell
Dec 29, 2019



:420::toot::420:

MysteriousStranger posted:

people personally condemened what happened in ww2 but all nation states swooped in gained from it and then lied about it, or would you like it in crayon?

I personally condemn you and your war crimes and do not know why you feel the need to leap to the defense of other war criminals - hold on, i just figured it out lmao

MysteriousStranger
Mar 3, 2016
My "vacation" is a euphemism for war tourism in Ukraine for some "bloody work" to escape my boring techie job and family.

Ask me about my warcrimes.

Trabisnikof posted:

Thankfully this attitude is never ever used to justify continued horrors and atrocities.

It's not a justification for poo poo, it's a condemnation. One person can morally object to something, the moment it becomes "but for the greater good of all of us" people will justify all sorts of bullshit and nobody will or can be held responsible.

That is the lesson of the post WW2 era. Everyone loving agreed on a personal level that what the Axis powers did was horrible, but for the greater good everyone scooped up all the doctors and scientists and now we have poo poo like jets and COVID vaccines.

It's the sad ugly truth that we are a monstorous animal and while one on one some of us can be good, get us in a group and we will justify all sorts of nonsense for the group.

I don't see what's so hard to grasp about this.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

quote:

"We have a researcher who was removed by the RCMP from the highest security laboratory that Canada has for reasons that government is unwilling to disclose. The intelligence remains secret. But what we know is that before she was removed, she sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, and multiple varieties of it to maximize the genetic diversity and maximize what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments. And that has links to the Chinese military."
...
Nearly one year after the expulsion of Qiu, Cheng, and her students from the NML, there are still no updates on the case from the RCMP or PHAC.

can't wait for the RCMP to get to the bottom of the virus investigation. They're trustworthy

quote:

Meanwhile, it appears the NML's shipper initially planned to send the viruses in inappropriate packaging and only changed it when the clients in China flagged the problem.

"The only reason the correct packaging was used is because the Chinese wrote to them and said, 'Aren't you making a mistake here?' If that had not happened, the scientists would have placed on an Air Canada flight, several of them actually, a deadly virus incorrectly packaged. That nearly happened," Attaran said.

lol this sounds like a Canadian gently caress up

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Groups have realized der wille zur macht. In other words, they have grown beyond good & evil

ram dass in hell
Dec 29, 2019



:420::toot::420:

MysteriousStranger posted:

It's not a justification for poo poo, it's a condemnation. One person can morally object to something, the moment it becomes "but for the greater good of all of us" people will justify all sorts of bullshit and nobody will or can be held responsible.

That is the lesson of the post WW2 era. Everyone loving agreed on a personal level that what the Axis powers did was horrible, but for the greater good everyone scooped up all the doctors and scientists and now we have poo poo like jets and COVID vaccines.

It's the sad ugly truth that we are a monstorous animal and while one on one some of us can be good, get us in a group and we will justify all sorts of nonsense for the group.

I don't see what's so hard to grasp about this.

MysteriousStranger
Mar 3, 2016
My "vacation" is a euphemism for war tourism in Ukraine for some "bloody work" to escape my boring techie job and family.

Ask me about my warcrimes.

glad to see you agree civilization was a mistake (I'm not joking here either)

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


MysteriousStranger posted:

That is the lesson of the post WW2 era. Everyone loving agreed on a personal level that what the Axis powers did was horrible, but for the greater good everyone scooped up all the doctors and scientists and now we have poo poo like jets and COVID vaccines.

this sort of surface level, face value take is so quintessentially liberal. what the western powers did was not "scooped up all the doctors and scientists", it was more than the wikipedia article on operation paperclip. nazi war criminals had their reputations laundered so they could go right back to working in the west german state, or into the u.s. to hunt communists. they helped create the neoliberal order we still live with today. the same just can't be said of the ussr

MysteriousStranger
Mar 3, 2016
My "vacation" is a euphemism for war tourism in Ukraine for some "bloody work" to escape my boring techie job and family.

Ask me about my warcrimes.

Hooplah posted:

this sort of surface level, face value take is so quintessentially liberal. what the western powers did was not "scooped up all the doctors and scientists", it was more than the wikipedia article on operation paperclip. nazi war criminals had their reputations laundered so they could go right back to working in the west german state, or into the u.s. to hunt communists. they helped create the neoliberal order we still live with today. the same just can't be said of the ussr

it sort of can for the same reason. they were good at killing the allies and they had science. same poo poo happened.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
The same poo poo did not happen you baboon. That was the whole point of the post!

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
The USSR did not defeat NSDAP because of better technology and being "good at killing" either.

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nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.
how can you come to this thread of all threads and say that kind of stuff

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