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The AI Race to Reboot Feudalism
Let's be honest about why they gamble everything
Nov 8, 2025
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Philipp Markolin, PhD
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Lab Leak Fever
The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society
Aug 1, 2025
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Philipp Markolin, PhD
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Treacherous ancestry
An extraordinary hunt for the ghosts of SARS-CoV-2
Apr 11, 2024
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Philipp Markolin, PhD
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How social media destroys democratic discourse, explained in 6 easy figures
Jan 18, 2025
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Treacherous ancestry
Apr 11, 2024
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Lableak truther loses $100,000 in his own debate
Feb 22, 2024
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Nature’s neglected GoF laboratory
Mar 21, 2022
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We need to talk about the anti-science movement
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Exclusive: The inside story behind the search for the origins of COVID-19
Apr 5, 2025
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Philipp Markolin, PhD
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The real biosecurity threat /w Gigi Kwik Gronvall
Science Counterpunch S2 Ep1
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Biased media coverage and the lab leak theory
Gain-of-function fearmongering and blame gets the glitzy NYT visual treatment as Republicans weaponize the lab leak theory again in attacks on Dr…
Aug 18
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The Fauci diaries are a predictable bust
Rand Paul desperately applies selective disclosure methods in his latest attempt to sustain lab leak fan fiction for personal gain
Jul 28
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The Science Counterpunch Insights Library
Anti-science aggression moves fast, it moves coordinated, and nobody has fully figured out how to fight back. But here are 300+ insights worth…
Jul 3
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AI policy
Current thinking on AI tool usage as writer and content creator
Jul 3
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Philipp Markolin, PhD
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Federal charges, international isolation, ideological purges and the administration's plan to create regime scientists in the US
I wish this wasn't a real headline either
Jun 4
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We need to talk about the anti-science movement
6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back
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Cool worlds against cosmic misrepresentations /w David Kipping
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Decoding anti-science gurus /w Matt Browne and Chris Kavanagh
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