Sublime

In August 2013, I happened upon a paper titled “The Silent Fire: ODAP and the Death of Christopher McCandless,” by Ronald Hamilton, which appeared to solve the conundrum. Hamilton’s essay, posted online, presented hitherto unknown evidence that the wild potato plant was in fact highly toxic, contrary to the assurances of Treadwell, Clausen, and

As recipients of US foreign aid, it was in their best interest to appear to be supporting the US in its war effort.

Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.

Finally, for all that we have discovered about the rest of nature, most of it remains a vast library of unread, even unknown books, full of undiscovered medicines, materials, tools and models for engineering. Biodiversity loss is thus an act of cultural vandalism and loss of knowledge greater than the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Among the other proponents of gain-of-function research was one Anthony Fauci. In December 2011, he was the lead author—along with Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the NIH—of a Washington Post opinion piece headlined “A Flu Virus Risk Worth Taking.”