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A few months ago I exposed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb as a grifting fraud, whose entire "scientific output" over the past decade or so, has been limited to unpublished preprints lying about astronomical phenomena that he then blasts to the media to garner fame and sell shitty books full of lies. He's completed two rounds of this behavior, first with exocomet 'Oumuamua, which he pretended was a spaceship, and then with a meteor that landed in the Pacific Ocean, which he also pretended was a spaceship, while he pretended to have retrieved fragments of it. Through this behavior he had already been known to be a massive fraud among the scientific community. But round three of the Avi Loeb grifter playbook has been in full effect since July of this year, with the discovery of exocomet 3I/ATLAS. He's been running his mouth about how this is aliens as well, lying through his teeth about every single aspect of this object, every single day, on any platform that will host him. He's gearing up for another shitty book and other blatant cash grabs, while also cuing up some other shady developments for himself, so let's take him down a notch by showing the world what a pathetic grifting fraud he's been regarding this object, shall we?

Early 3I/ATLAS paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08111
Jewitt paper: https://www.scribd.com/document/936634264/Jewitt-2025-ApJL-990-L2
Cordiner paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0647

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What is color? What is it that determines the color of an object? And what the heck is refraction? Good thing we just learned about electromagnetic radiation! Especially the visible spectrum. Let's take a look.

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A very interesting early industrial process is the synthesis of petroleum from coal, developed by German chemists Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch. Let's learn all about the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis now!

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I have to tell you, Ancient Greece is my favorite era of history. Oh, how I wish I could have been there to philosophize with the greats! Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, plus all of the mathematicians, like Pythagoras. He loved math so much, he made a religion out of it! I mean it makes sense, if you transport yourself to that time, where we didn't know any science. Let's look at the world through the eyes of the Pythagoreans!

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Now that we know how to use logarithms, we are ready to solve a whole new class of equations that we couldn't before! Whether these are logarithmic equations or exponential equations, using logs will allow us to get the answers we need.

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Up until a couple centuries ago, we had no idea what light is. It seems like magic, no? But there is no magic in this world, really. Just stuff we don't understand. So let's understand light a little better right now, through James Clerk Maxwell and the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Remember the COVID-19 pandemic? That was crazy, right? And did you hear that the virus responsible, SARS-CoV-2, leaked from a virology lab in Wuhan? And that it may even have been deliberately leaked to act as a bioweapon? You definitely heard that. Everybody has. But is it true? Well... I mean what's the alternative? All those stupid scientists talking about how it almost certainly originated from a wet market, with live animals coughing and crapping everywhere, just like so many other documented spillover events, what sense does that make? Those people are stupid establishment shills, right? Well, why don't we talk about it in excruciating detail for a couple hours? That should clear everything up.

0:00 Introduction
2:05 Facts First
13:14 The Bioweapon Bullshit That Made a Billion
29:20 The Mojiang Myth and the Rise of DRASTIC
37:48 The Rise of the Frankenvirus Narrative
1:02:05 How Pandemic Origins Became Culture War Gold
1:14:08 Lab Leak Goes to Washington
1:26:08 Conversation With Philipp Markolin
1:53:32 Epilogue

Special thanks to Philipp Markolin for helping me produce this video, please check out his book and other writings, as well as an upcoming documentary from Christian Frei.
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More origins info & sourcing material at: https://www.lab-leak-fever.com/
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Epidemiology paper: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abm4454
Another epidemiology paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
Origins paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421009910
Paper on the wet market: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91470-2
Another paper on the wet market: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06043-2
More epidemiology: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00901-2
Multiple zoonotic origins paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337
Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-018-0118-9
Review on animal reservoirs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168170207001050
Novel bat coronaviruses: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2821%2900709-1
Proximal origin paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Furin site paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119
Recombination paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8882382/
QTQTN motif paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205690119

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Today we are reacting to some jerk named Don Batten who really hates the idea that life on Earth came about by natural processes, because it contradicts his baseless religious ideology regarding a magic sky daddy making humans super special just the way they are 6,000 years ago. He has a cute little script to try and discredit this possibility, and if you thought James Tour was stupid, you'd better buckle up.

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Not all waves travel across the ocean or across the universe. Some are stuck in a certain spot! Like the vibrations of the strings on a guitar. What's the deal with these standing waves? And what's this, quantization? Oh my! We'd better learn about this concept before digging into modern physics.

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After learning about the Shang Dynasty, it's time to move on to the Zhou Dynasty. This will include the Western Zhou of the 11th through 8th centuries BCE, as well as the Eastern Zhou, which includes the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period of the 8th through 3rd centuries BCE. What sorts of changes did this era entail? Let's take a look!

Script by Peter Wyetzner

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