bs2Dec 20, 2023
> He was right about evolution, that is. He wasn't right about everything. Being a restless explainer, Darwin floated a number of theoretical notions during his long working life, some of which were mistaken and illusory. He was wrong about what causes variation within a species. He was wrong about a famous geologic mystery, the parallel shelves along a Scottish valley called Glen Roy. .
https://www.uvm.edu/~pbierman/classes/gradsem/2005fall/DarwinWrong.pdf
#DavidQuammen on #Darwin #WasDarwinWrong?
lorconAug 1, 2023

Perchè il dibattito scientifico sull'origine del #SARS-Covid19 conta? Ha senso parlarne in un anno in cui il #Covid ha diminuito la sua mortalità al punto che molti sembrano essersi scordati quanto successo tre anni fa? Si, perchè le pandemie/sindemie sono qua per restare e peggiorare.

Un pregevole articolo sul #NYT di #DavidQuammen che ricostruisce il dibattito intorno all'origine del #Covid19

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/magazine/covid-start.html

The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin

We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here's what we do know — and why it matters.

The New York Times
mattparrJul 25, 2023

The brilliant #DavidQuammen (is there a better #science and #nature writer out there?) on lab leaks, zoonotic spillovers, and the origins of #COVID19 .

Epidemiological high drama with some sensible things to say along the way about science, open-mindedness, and different kinds of skepticism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/magazine/covid-start.html?unlocked_article_code=nYfCPPk8IA3Lx-awhq_23aLanESXBLiVZYfrzpjEIjtT_5l1Q-h3hXuM5ClecsU3L3-k5_nM57oYhzSxDkDqZL7DRgkezGQtXaIpgL8xDkEoGSAMUWQpfdyfmmhLFHgaBNyrDzJ4oV1-yQmKQr-s4ztiZNDP7-j3ou09xFKlOkO9usV1atNncXTMFN-EFXzDUk5A0MnRtu-eagSwHiMwkMvvyIVuHndLP3A6vTI0buHIzaPMIg_VgFJUlrtSRTV4WfnRru6-c_icl3_Q7mnP-eoeWkb7n-afGsRymbEhr235b7UbSO994WQgbh6YIRyDfaMV7gBA&smid=url-share

The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin

We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here's what we do know — and why it matters.

The New York Times
bs2Jun 6, 2023

"If you're not wrong half the time, you're not being brave enough" --- Ford Doolittle

#FordDoolittle quoted by #DavidQuammen in The #TangledTreeOfLife , the inosculation examples are interesting too.

Brian SmallMay 19, 2023

“Our results illustrate the spread of antibiotic-resistant organisms from chicken to chicken and from chicken to man.” With those words, Stuart Levy and his colleagues reported the findings of a study, in 1976, showing how antibiotics used in animal feed lead to the spread of drug-resistant microbes. Levy, who spent his entire career at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, USA, as a physician and researcher, urged the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban such use of antibiotics. The FDA initially agreed, triggering a fierce reaction from the US agriculture and pharmaceutical industries that refused to accept the findings. The ban was only introduced in 2017, something Levy had long called for. - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32273-1/fulltext
I'm re-reading #DavidQuammen's #TangledTreeOfLife and wondering how I forgot so many important things from the first reading a few years ago.
#StuartLevy #APUA #AllianceForThePrudentUseOfAntibiotics #AntiBiotics #SuperBugs #MRSA

Renata 💻 🎒🦩🐬🌊🥵Jan 13, 2023

That was some ridiculously stressful errand running. I’m gonna chill and let someone read to me. :)

#audible #books #thesongofthedodo #davidquammen #reader

StripymoggieJan 10, 2023

Reading David Quammen's Breathless. "[Viruses] are the dark angels of evolution, terrific and terrible."

Wow, what a line!

#Virology #COVID #DavidQuammen #Breathless

Renata 💻 🎒🦩🐬🌊🥵Dec 21, 2022

Walked to the grocer earlier and listened to one of my current reads.

#audiobooks #davidquammen #thesongofthedodo #evolution #biology #islandbiogeography #sixthextinction

Thiago CarvalhoDec 4, 2022

"Quammen, 74, is the favorite science writer of many people who don’t usually read science writing. He also happens to be the favorite science writer of many science writers, a foundational figure. Among the kinds of people who cover anything from space telescopes to treatment-resistant bacteria, Quammen is a writer to geek out over."

#SciComm #Books #DavidQuammen

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/11/david-quammen-breathless-covid-science-book/672151/

I Went Hiking With David Quammen

A visit with David Quammen, who confronted in COVID a story that refused to stay at a safe distance

The Atlantic
perUnaltracittàNov 22, 2022

Senza respiro
Due anni fa nel, il 23 novembre 2020, abbiamo recensito, ‘Senza respiro’,   libro inchiesta sulla pandemia edito da ‘Altra economia’, scritto dall’amico e collega Vittorio Agnoletto, qui l’intervista.

Da qualche giorno in libreria c’è un altro ‘Senza respiro’ edito da Adelphi, scritto da
https://www.perunaltracitta.org/homepage/2022/11/22/senza-respiro-2/
#KillBilly #Rubriche #covid19 #DavidQuammen #Gof #pangolini #pipistrelli #Senzarespiro #VittorioAgnoletto #ZhengliShi

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