A case study of peer review enabling academic abuse Alex Washburne Feb 23, 2024 Science was a beautiful thing before people got involved. As a child, the son of a molecular biologist, I envisioned Science as a magical community of scholars all committed to truth, a Vulcan-esque species of minds for whom evidence and...
Scientists For Science – the “boys will be boys” of science Alex Washburne Feb 10, 2024 The history of the COVID-19 pandemic started long before 2019. If I were to put a start-date on the series of events leading to COVID-19, I’d start in 2011 when the Dutch scientist Ron Fouchier and his team...
Probable cause, preponderance of evidence, and beyond reasonable doubt Alex Washburne Jan 28, 2024 I had previously made the case that the totality of circumstances surrounding SARS-CoV-2 origins is sufficient for probable cause to believe the virus originated in a lab. In addition to the circumstances surrounding the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the evidence we lack...
Deciphering the tracks left in the genome of SARS-CoV-2 & drafts of DEFUSE Alex Washburne Jan 26, 2024 Without any formal training, I learned how to track animals as a natural consequence of my love of the outdoors, my curiosity about the lives of animals, and my statistical mind. Having grown up spending considerable time...
