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freie-radios.net (Redaktionsbereich Andere)Phantasie und Pandemie: Das große Raunen bei 3sat / nano (Serie 1003: CX- Corax - Wissenschaft - science)Woher kommt SARS-CoV-2? Ende Juni berichtete die Wissenschaftssendung „nano“ des öffentlich-rechtlichen Senders 3sat von vermeintlichen neuen Indizien in der Frage.
Gunnar Hamann von der tagesaktuellen Redaktion von Radio Corax hat über Monate recherchiert und ging auf eine Spurensuche im großen Raunen zwischen Pandemie und Phantasie. Er sprach mit Experten sowie einem der „nano“-Beitragsmacher. Sein Fazit: Der „nano“-Beitrag ist ein großartiges Lehrbeispiel für Journalistenschulen dazu, wie guter Wissenschaftsjournalismus auf keinen Fall ablaufen sollte.
Im Beitrag kommen unter anderem zu Wort:
• Peter Daszak: britisch-amerikanischer Zoologe und ehemaliger Leiter der EcoHealth Alliance,
• David Gorski: US-amerikanischer chirurgischer Onkologe und Chefredakteur von Sci...
2025-11-2804 min
Decoding the GurusLab Leak Fever with Philipp MarkolinJoin Matt and Chris as they dive into the controversy-ridden world of the lab leak theory, accompanied by biochemist-turned-author Philipp Markolin. Philipp details his journey into the abyss of lab leak lore and sensationalist media, documenting how thorough research was pushed aside in favour of conspiratorial discourse. For those who dream of a world where science triumphs over sensationalism, this episode is your bittersweet symphony.LinksPhilipp's SubstackLab Leak Fever Book SiteNew Documentary Movie about the Lab LeakOur previous episode on the Lab LeakBad Boy of Science: Sam Gregson's channel that includes many interviews with Philipp...
2025-10-191h 13
Science CounterpunchChapter 12 - Science under Siege in the Information AgeNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.“Murderer! Murderer! Smug murderer!” The threatening calls from an unknown conspiracy theorist followed Peter Daszak down the seemingly endless hallway of the US Capitol building. Some of his detractors were trying to get him rattled—any reaction, really—holding their phones to his face so they could blast it out to their followers. Also there: Emily Kopp, working for the anti-biotechnology activist group USRTK. S...
2025-10-031h 23
Science CounterpunchChapter 11 - The Marketplace of Motivated RationalizationsNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.On March 4, 2023, while doing unrelated research, Dr. Florence Débarre randomly came across a new set of FASTQ files (a text file of nucleotide base sequences) on the GISAID database. Curious, she started investigating. Less than two weeks later, another viral information cascade would ignite the lab leak media universe ablaze again. This time, instead of the usual manufactured pseudo-events and trope-laden stories, a...
2025-09-261h 12
Science CounterpunchChapter 10 - The information cascades that haunt usNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.“I was always the ‘zoonati’ they could talk to.” Professor Stuart Neil, a virologist from King’s College London, chuckled about his perceived diplomatic role for DRASTIC and some other lab leak proponents. “I intrinsically thought this was an interesting story,” he said, remembering how he became intrigued by various ideas of how SARS-CoV-2 could have come about via a research-related accident ever since the Moji...
2025-09-191h 33
Science CounterpunchChapter 9 - Secular gurus, sages and shamans of the modern hill tribesNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.“Disgusting,” he said, ripping me out of my thoughts. He showed me a meme where Zhengli’s head had been photoshopped onto a bat, her face distorted with an open mouth to reveal vampire's teeth, and the whole frame colored in blood red. I shuddered involuntarily. The dehumanization was not subtle. “I really hate what they did with her ears here; it makes her look...
2025-09-121h 29
Science CounterpunchChapter 8 - Outbreak: ContainedNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.Independent and interdisciplinary science is important. When evolutionary virologist Michael Worobey, a professor at the University of Arizona, got involved in the search for the origins of COVID-19, he had no idea what he got himself into. With a “soft spot for wild theories,” at least according to a former colleague, and a track record of tackling hotly debated theories around dangerous viruses, the...
2025-09-051h 14
Science CounterpunchChapter 7 - Nature´s neglected gain-of-function laboratoryNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.A river of black drew a line through the darkening sky. Above the silver and gold ornaments on the pagoda’s crimson roofs at Wat Khao Chong Pran, the river flow turned southeast towards the fields. Rationally, I knew that the cave housed around two and a half million horseshoe bats, but observing a seemingly never-ending flood of hectic creatures fly out for mo...
2025-08-291h 14
Science CounterpunchChapter 6 - The vibe shiftNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.Heavy breaths followed a claustrophobic chase around the hotel room. Peter Daszak was doing his workout run from the showers through the bedroom to the antechamber and back, again and again and again. The Chinese hosts in Wuhan had placed him in quarantine for two weeks, and the pressure, isolation, and restrictions were difficult to deal with at times. He was an outdoor...
2025-08-221h 29
We Want Them Infected PodcastThe Politics of COVID Origins with Dr. Philipp Markolin PhDIn this episode of We Want Them Infected, Dr. Jonathan Howard and Wendy Orent unpack the shocking CDC shooting in Atlanta, which many are calling "public health's January 6th." They trace how years of anti-science rhetoric from figures like RFK Jr., Jay Bhattacharya, and Vinay Prasad have fueled violent consequences. They also welcome their first guest, Dr. Philipp Markolin PhD, author of Lab Leak Fever. Dr. Markolin shares his global reporting on COVID's origins, dismantles the so-called "lab leak" hypothesis, and explains how disinformation has been weaponized for politics and power. From epidemiological evidence at the Wuhan...
2025-08-212h 11
Destiny Debates and DiscussionsDr. Philipp Markolin - Lableak TheoryDestiny has a call with Dr. Philipp Markolin, a professor, researcher, and science communicator about the CoVID lableak theory.
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2025-08-181h 10
Science CounterpunchChapter 5 - Blaming Tigers, Hidden FearsNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.“They got a police escort to get us shoe shopping, and I basically wore a wedding dress… There are even photos in Pakistani newspapers… and I just thought, if I can give a talk wearing this, I can give a talk in anything.” Alice Hughes laughed wholeheartedly while I shook my head in giddy disbelief. It was a good day, which we both needed...
2025-08-151h 06
Science CounterpunchChapter 4 - Played by the outrage machineNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.I got interested in the lab origin controversy at an odd time in my life. After having spent a decade in biological labs for my research, I gradually developed an interest in systemic approaches to understanding biology. There are just too many moving pieces in a biological system to capture all, or even just the most relevant, causative molecular mechanisms of complex phenomena...
2025-08-081h 04
Science CounterpunchChapter 3 - The overfitting monkeyNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.The hollow sound of our footsteps echoed through the boundless darkness; a solemn silence had befallen us, like in a temple. Our cave guide held up a single old gas lamp, the only source of light. The flickering flame instilled the unmoving stone walls and pillars with life. Salt crystal veins grew over some walls, pure white, like frozen spiderwebs on a frosty...
2025-08-011h 02
Science CounterpunchChapter 2 - Early Drums of WarNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.“Without a harmonious and stable environment, how can there be a home where people can live and work happily?” Xi Jinping's words on New Year’s Eve in 2019 were intended to reign in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. For months, the city has been in a renewed battle for its soul against the oppressive and subversive influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tens o...
2025-08-0152 min
Science CounterpunchChapter 1 - With the Shadow HuntersNote: This is a freely accessible serialized version of Lab Leak Fever. Audio voiceover was AI generated for accessibility. Find an overview of all chapters here or consult the book website for further information.A disturbingly dry cough broke the silence of the Malaysian night; the pigs resting under the mango trees had been uneasy that day. Loud, whooping breaths filled the backyards of small farmhouses. Pig farming had been a family business in the villages of Bukit Pelandok and Sikamat, and for the Foochow Chinese, it was a source of pride and good income. While most...
2025-08-0138 min
Skepsis podcastSkepsis podcast #10 - Oorsprong van het coronavirusVoor Skepter schreef wetenschapsjournalist Stan van Pelt een uitgebreid stuk over de oorsprong van het coronavirus. Kwam corona uit de natuur of uit het lab? Die vraagt ligt vier jaar na dato nog altijd op tafel. Voor beide theorieën zijn allerlei aanwijzingen, maar insinuaties en belangen in beide kampen maken een evenwichtige analyse lastig.In deze podcast special gaan Richard Engelfriet en Pepijn van Erp met Stan hierover in gesprek.Leesvoer bij deze aflevering:Alison Young. Pandora's Gamble, Lab Leaks, Pandemics and a World at Risk. (2023)Alina Chan & M...
2024-05-271h 09
Science CounterpunchAnnouncing: Treacherous ancestryWith the GOP ramping up voter manipulation efforts for the general election, the “gain-of-function lab leak” myth is back in full swingYesterday, the GOP-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic announced in a grandstanding letter the public interrogation of Dr. Peter Daszak, President of the non-profit organization EcoHealth Alliance.This announcement is the second one this week, following an earlier such proclamation addressing the editors-in-chief of the flagship scientific journals Nature, Science, and TheLancet.The announcements were coordinated with multiple right-leaning news outlets such as Fox News and the Washington Times, who...
2024-04-0501 min
Science CounterpunchPre-empting bad scienceThe lab leak hypothesis is dead, but the lab leak myth will never die.A new paper makes the rounds in the media by claiming a risk assessment score sheet can determine the "unnatural" nature of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. A stark contrast to the scientific consensus on zoonotic spillover. Over the years, we have seen many such probabilistic, Bayesian, or “common sense” analyses from various sources and all of them were of dubious quality and distributed by dubious actors with a very limited grasp of scientific evidence. However, this does not mean that alte...
2024-03-151h 16
Beyond Biotech - the podcast from LabiotechBeyond Biotech podcast 12: Gate Neurosciences, Oncolyze, 3Brain2:48 Labiotech.eu news5:22 Gate Neurosciences16:18 3Brain31:13 Oncolyze50:22 JLLThis week’s podcast guests are Mike McCully, CEO of Gate Neurosciences; Steven Evans, CEO and co-founder of Oncolyze; and Philipp Markolin, scientific marketing specialist at 3Brain.We also have our weekly chat with global commercial real estate services company JLL, and this week it’s a chat with Amber Schiada, head of life sciences research in the Americas for the company.Gate launches to develop CNS t...
2022-09-0256 min
Embrace The VoidEV - 227 Techno-epistemic crisis with Philipp MarkolinMy guest this week is Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin), a former data analyst at ETH who writes on the role of technology in our epistemic crisis. We discuss why all issues inevitably get co-opted by commenters and what might short circuit the process.Algorithmic curation article: https://protagonist-science.medium.com/85e9cde79189Convocation: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2020/10/monster-island-free-speech-experiment/Music by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us...
2022-01-281h 04
Embrace The VoidEV - 226 Sowell's History of Slavery with Charles BoydMy guest this week is Charles Boyd (@MinorityOfOne75), a historian, writer, and activist who teaches at Georgia state university and host of the Minority of One podcast. We discuss the chapter from Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals about the history of slavery.The real history of slavery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrfjUzYvPoConvocation: SowellMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on...
2022-01-211h 03