New Yorker Staff Writer. Author of “Denialism, “Fauci” & "Higher Animals" on life in a world where biology moves at the speed of light. Visiting Scholar MIT.
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Michael Specter retweeted
Design, build, work… nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @NatureComms @joncalles @akshaywari #SB #syntheticbiology
Michael Specter retweeted
Tough to watch RFKJr's campaign video (um, don't).
Sickening to hear him constantly reference his family (who have consistently rejected all he stands for) legacy in order to support a hateful, alt-right-ish, conspiracy theory-filled, & evidence-free agenda.
#DeathCultDarkAge
Michael Specter retweeted
#GinkgoFerment starting at 930ET - tune in!!! 😃😃😃🧬🧬🧬🎉🎉🎉
youtube.com/live/E8uc5X0tDBs…
Michael Specter retweeted
Changing the game: @specterm's 'Higher Animals' reveals how synthetic biology is transforming the future of vaccines and more on.msnbc.com/3Mr51Rd
Michael Specter retweeted
"It is long past time to acknowledge that some experiments simply should not be carried out," writes @specterm in @statnews statnews.com/2023/04/06/synt…
Michael Specter retweeted
Tomorrow night we’re hosting a fireside chat between @DrewEndy and @VitalikButerin. What questions should they be asking each other?
Michael Specter retweeted
The published scientific data convincingly shows that covid was a natural zoonosis
The DOE favors the lab leak theory on the basis of classified secrets
Pandemic surveillance is too important for “trust me bro.” Data transparency or gtfo
Michael Specter retweeted
This is our @CDCgov
X No warning on BA.5
X Still says 2 vaccine doses ="fully vaccinated"
X Says 5 days is all that's needed for isolation when 5 days is the median length of infectiousness
X 1 in 4 age 50+ w/ 2nd booster (<-survival benefit)
X Transmission is the accurate map👇
Michael Specter retweeted
He’s accused of seditious conspiracy and trying to have his vice president executed, and this is what bothers him.
Michael Specter retweeted
Why don't you retweet this 1 time for every school shooting in the past decade?
Michael Specter retweeted
I'm very concerned that we are seeing rebound of active, replicating and likely infectious virus occurring frequently after COVID-19 oral treatment
This may call for a 8 or 10 day course of treatment rather than 5 days
Here's what I think is happening and what we should do
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Michael Specter retweeted
russia has utterly destroyed a city of 430,000 people in mariupol. over 10,000 ukrainians likely already dead.
this is not a fight against the military. putin has ordered the systematic terror and indiscriminate murder of the ukrainian people.
Michael Specter retweeted
First day of "Safeguarding the Future" with @specterm, a course for those concerned our power may outstrip our wisdom so badly that we can't recover. How can we best improve our odds with history, storytelling, & invention... then do it? canvas.mit.edu/courses/14137
Michael Specter retweeted
ICYMI, on 12/23, the last news day before a long holiday break, FDA approved the viral mutagen molnupiravir as an at-home COVID19 drug. It sounds worrisome because it is. I wrote in the @washingtonpost that immunoevasive variants could arise from its use.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
Michael Specter retweeted
We reflect on the progress of science throughout the pandemic, now with a potent anti-Covid pill emerging, and the persistent vulnerability in the US, with net optimism, @cuttingforstone and me looking back and forward, new @Medscape podcast and transcript
medscape.com/viewarticle/963…
