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A Biologist's Guide to Life

Alex Washburne, PhD

Alex Washburne's efforts to make sense of Life

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The Bioweapons Problem

Ken Alibek was the head of Biopreparat, the Soviet agency publicly responsible for Soviet biodefense while covertly researching, developing, and mass producing biological weapons at the largest scale humanity has ever witnessed.

Dr. Alibek...

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The Irkutsk Plague

The Moscow Times reported that nearly 200 people are under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from a pneumonic form of the plague in Irkutsk, Russia. As a biodefense scholar with experience working on epidemiological, microb...

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Should we aerosolize ebola to test vaccines?

Rand Paul recently disclosed evidence that under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership NIAID paid for research at Fort Detrick on a project that involved the aerosolization of ebolavirus to test the efficacy of vaccines in primates.

Naturally, ev...

13 days ago
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Managing Technological Risks

Stop.

Stop panicking. Stop saying AI or bio or AI-Bio will kill us all. Stop tweeting your p(Doom). Stop stopping technological development under the guise of “pacing”.

Just stop.

Take a deep breath.

Turn off that lizard brain. Ignore t...

a month ago
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Everyone is Wrong about COVID Origins

(almost everyone)

The 2018 DEFUSE grant proposed to modify a bat sarbecovirus in Wuhan by adding a furin cleavage site (FCS) in a reverse genetics system of such a virus.

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