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In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995 🧪 #covidorigin

Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “S...

Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part I)

Matt Ridley, global warming skeptic and co-author with Alina Chan of a book promoting a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, was invited by Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to give the inaugural “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH. The lecture was full of inconsistencies, omissions, misrepresentations, falsehoods, and lies. Here is… Continue reading Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part I)

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Flo Débarre Apr 14

In March, invited by Jay Bhattacharya, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. There was a lot to debunk; here is Part II: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1108 🧪 #covidorigin

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Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part II)

The first part of this rebuttal can be read here; the third part will be posted later. Ridley’s lecture is available on Youtube; I also generated a transcript, available here. The same disclaimer as in the previous post still applies: This work is by no means exhaustive. If I am not covering a point, this… Continue reading Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part II)

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Flo Débarre

Here is finally the third, and last, part of my rebuttal of Matt Ridley's inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1260 #covidorigin 🧪

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Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part III)

This post is the third and final part of my debunk of Matt Ridley’s inaugural Scientific Freedom Lecture at NIH. The first part can be read here and the second part here. Ridley’s lecture is available on Youtube; I also generated a transcript, available here. The same disclaimer as in the previous posts still applies:… Continue reading Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part III)

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