Stuart Neil
@tetherin.bsky.social
Virologist, comparative virus/host interactions of HIV, Flu, Ebola and SARS CoV-2
Unashamed fan of loud shouty music. Not left-wing, not right-wing, not too fond of historical or present day fascists.
Unashamed fan of loud shouty music. Not left-wing, not right-wing, not too fond of historical or present day fascists.
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If cbs has any guts, they would not air any of it and explain why…. But of course now the newsroom is run by MAGA conspiracist Bari Weiss they will just roll over for their master.
If cbs has any guts, they would not air any of it and explain why…. But of course now the newsroom is run by MAGA conspiracist Bari Weiss they will just roll over for their master.
White House press secretary tells CBS ‘we’ll sue your ass off’ if it edits Trump interview
Karoline Leavitt was recorded warning network to broadcast new interview with president in full and without edits
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:25 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
If cbs has any guts, they would not air any of it and explain why…. But of course now the newsroom is run by MAGA conspiracist Bari Weiss they will just roll over for their master.
If cbs has any guts, they would not air any of it and explain why…. But of course now the newsroom is run by MAGA conspiracist Bari Weiss they will just roll over for their master.
I guess technically getting a slight bruise counts as ‘internal bleeding’…..or maybe in the ‘excitement’ his haemorrhoid burst.
January 15, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I guess technically getting a slight bruise counts as ‘internal bleeding’…..or maybe in the ‘excitement’ his haemorrhoid burst.
A point of clarification. Enoch Jenrick did NOT defect to Reform. He had already been fired and chucked out of the Tories. He wasn’t affiliated to any party when he had to rush prematurely to his new fuhrer and hurriedly sign on the dotted line…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Barbs and a betrayal as Jenrick joins Reform after Badenoch gives him boot
Former shadow justice secretary shares stage with Nigel Farage in wake of being summarily sacked by Tory leader
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
A point of clarification. Enoch Jenrick did NOT defect to Reform. He had already been fired and chucked out of the Tories. He wasn’t affiliated to any party when he had to rush prematurely to his new fuhrer and hurriedly sign on the dotted line…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
One is a former army and intelligence officer, Administrator of an Iraqi province, Foreign Service representative in Afghanistan, former MP and Cabinet minister, Charity head, author, Yale Professor and co-presenter of a highly popular podcast.
The other is an ‘opinion journalist’ with a Substack.
The other is an ‘opinion journalist’ with a Substack.
January 12, 2026 at 8:14 AM
One is a former army and intelligence officer, Administrator of an Iraqi province, Foreign Service representative in Afghanistan, former MP and Cabinet minister, Charity head, author, Yale Professor and co-presenter of a highly popular podcast.
The other is an ‘opinion journalist’ with a Substack.
The other is an ‘opinion journalist’ with a Substack.
Interesting that the UK’s volkisch press hasn’t covered Iran at all but finds time to bash the BBC for its coverage that is the leading story on their sites.
Plus how do expect any media to cover anything in depth when we have a protofascist mafioso flooding the zone with destabilizing nonsense?
Plus how do expect any media to cover anything in depth when we have a protofascist mafioso flooding the zone with destabilizing nonsense?
January 10, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Interesting that the UK’s volkisch press hasn’t covered Iran at all but finds time to bash the BBC for its coverage that is the leading story on their sites.
Plus how do expect any media to cover anything in depth when we have a protofascist mafioso flooding the zone with destabilizing nonsense?
Plus how do expect any media to cover anything in depth when we have a protofascist mafioso flooding the zone with destabilizing nonsense?
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Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
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Jay & Matt hope you watch their incredible pushup form instead of the $500M they gave themselves based on work that is definitively “dangerous gain-of-function” (DGOF) research. They also terminated grants doing similar work for being DGOF.
Hypocrites
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/workouts-f...
Hypocrites
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/workouts-f...
Workouts From the Cringe
Take the Matt and Jay Challenge: How much DGOF can you cancel before it comes out that you do it yourself?
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Jay & Matt hope you watch their incredible pushup form instead of the $500M they gave themselves based on work that is definitively “dangerous gain-of-function” (DGOF) research. They also terminated grants doing similar work for being DGOF.
Hypocrites
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/workouts-f...
Hypocrites
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/workouts-f...
Might explain why Bryce K Incels and Ed ‘the hamster’ Hammond* were left with such a bad taste in their mouths after working for him.
*(he’s not a real hamster though is he)
*(he’s not a real hamster though is he)
I wouldn't describe Jay as "man in the middle" unless I were making sort of human centipede analogy.
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Might explain why Bryce K Incels and Ed ‘the hamster’ Hammond* were left with such a bad taste in their mouths after working for him.
*(he’s not a real hamster though is he)
*(he’s not a real hamster though is he)
Excellent. Fund deeply unethical trials by antivax apologists that will put neonates at risk of HBV transmission. And do it in a developing country and run away.
Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America
Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Excellent. Fund deeply unethical trials by antivax apologists that will put neonates at risk of HBV transmission. And do it in a developing country and run away.
Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America
Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America
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Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP
It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese
Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP
It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese
KHNYN is a manganese-dependent endoribonuclease required for ZAP-mediated antiviral restriction
Abstract. Zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) is a cytoplasmic protein central to host innate immunity to viral infection. ZAP has no intrinsic catalytic a
academic.oup.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP
It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese
Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP
It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese
Stop the clocks. An @telegraph.co.uk push notice about a virologist’s opinion on flu that is not calling them a leftist shill or accusing them of making the virus in the lab.
Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…
Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Stop the clocks. An @telegraph.co.uk push notice about a virologist’s opinion on flu that is not calling them a leftist shill or accusing them of making the virus in the lab.
Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…
Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
COVID Origins: Debunking the Grift, Pseudoscience, and Politics of the Lab Leak Theory
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Same shit, different subject for Viscount Grift
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Same shit, different subject for Viscount Grift
“Published” here means he left a comment in the ‘have your say’ box at the bottom of the article, which while moderated for decorum, is not reviewed for scientific merit…which is just as well.
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“Published” here means he left a comment in the ‘have your say’ box at the bottom of the article, which while moderated for decorum, is not reviewed for scientific merit…which is just as well.
Good time to be in the milkshake business north of the border
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Good time to be in the milkshake business north of the border
Imagine being so mortified by your behavior at public school (where you racially abused your fellows and called for the gassing of your Jewish colleagues) that to prove there is not a racist bone in your body you spend 30yrs leading a series of far right parties and stir up hatred of immigrants.
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Imagine being so mortified by your behavior at public school (where you racially abused your fellows and called for the gassing of your Jewish colleagues) that to prove there is not a racist bone in your body you spend 30yrs leading a series of far right parties and stir up hatred of immigrants.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub.
And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.
Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub.
And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.
Farage repeatedly shouts ‘Bernard Manning’ at journalists amid racism allegations
Reform UK leader hit out at the BBC and ITV for what he said were ‘double standards’ but was criticised by the comedian’s family
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub.
And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.
Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub.
And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.
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Jesse Bloom ca 2020-2023, apparently.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Jesse Bloom ca 2020-2023, apparently.
This whole thing is based on trying to rubbish phylogenetic evidence and epidemiology that robustly puts the emergence of SARS2 in Wuhan in late Nov/Early Dec at the Huanan Market.
If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?
If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?
It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true.
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This whole thing is based on trying to rubbish phylogenetic evidence and epidemiology that robustly puts the emergence of SARS2 in Wuhan in late Nov/Early Dec at the Huanan Market.
If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?
If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?
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It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true.
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true.
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
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We had all of the scientific arguments why this data didn't seem to fit right, and wasn't important for origins, but we never really considered the simpler solution that a well regarded white male scientist or two were just making something up!
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We had all of the scientific arguments why this data didn't seem to fit right, and wasn't important for origins, but we never really considered the simpler solution that a well regarded white male scientist or two were just making something up!
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Puzzled by the discrepancy, I emailed István Csabai, who had discovered the contaminating sequences. He told me that the January 2020 date was actually not something the Chinese scientists had told him, but something inferred from other information... ▫️6/9
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Puzzled by the discrepancy, I emailed István Csabai, who had discovered the contaminating sequences. He told me that the January 2020 date was actually not something the Chinese scientists had told him, but something inferred from other information... ▫️6/9
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Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central.
In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.
Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central.
In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.
Are you familiar with the story of the Antarctica sequences?
If not, good for you: you didn't clutter your brain with yet another Covid-origin damp squib, where innocuous data were made to look suspicious by misrepresenting a date.
For the curious, here's the story. ▫️1/9 🧵 #CovidOrigin
If not, good for you: you didn't clutter your brain with yet another Covid-origin damp squib, where innocuous data were made to look suspicious by misrepresenting a date.
For the curious, here's the story. ▫️1/9 🧵 #CovidOrigin
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central.
In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.
Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central.
In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.
You can literally set you watch by these clowns
6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.
6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
You can literally set you watch by these clowns
6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.
6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.