Hypoautonomic, BS

@hypoautonomic.bsky.social

Looking at misinformation, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories. He/him.

Everyone mildly interested in science denial tactics can immediately spot what Metzl is doing as the nirvana fallacy, employed by antivaxxers and climate change deniers through history. Demanding certainty is ignorant and when it comes from pretend experts it's a sick joke.

@JamieMetzl
There is a lot of unnecessary confusion about the peer-reviewed literature re COVID-19 origins.

Anyone who has actually read these papers knows they do not conclusively prove how the pandemic began. Not one peer-reviewed study claims to have established the origin of SARS-CoV-2 with certainty. Not one.

Yet some authors of these papers have publicly and deliberately overstated what their own research demonstrates, sowing misinformation and creating widespread confusion about the state of the evidence.

Because the origin of COVID-19 remains unproven, we must follow the evidence relentlessly, regardless of the politics and wherever it leads.
9:39 AM · Aug 3, 2026
Atomsk's Sanakan
@AtomsksSanakan
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17h
Metzl commits the nirvana fallacy and shows he doesn't know how science works.

You don't 'prove' things in science, since it's neither math nor formal logic. 
You give evidence.

And there's plenty of evidence of zoonosis.

https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/12782/chapter/4#21


https://x.com/AtomsksSanakan/status/2041130221768732841

Not sure who still needs to learn this but Andrew Huberman is a dirty little snake oil salesman who counts on people not looking up how much he stands to profit from his fake educational enterprise that’s actually just stealth marketing

Huberman advertises with vague bullshit for full body MRIs:
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Notice how this (long-ass) article contains zero evidence of a lab leak. All it has is third-order meta-complaints about an alleged cover up. This is a hallmark of conspiracists: Blind you with meaningless smoke to distract from the fact that their core narrative has no basis.

What the new COVID origin slack messages actually show: Emily Kopp(plops) assumed a pdf labeled feb 7 meant there was a meeting on feb 7. Revealed is her method of reporting: assuming things in ignorance, never confirming any fact she thinks she knows.

Emily Kopp
@emilyakopp
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Jul 21
New Slack messages between the authors of the infamous Proximal Origin paper suggest that Jeremy Farrar initiated the coverup of the Wuhan lab leak while in communication with a British intelligence "friend." Farrar is the WHO's chief scientist[2022-05-31 20:23:29]
[Eddie Holmes]
Emily Plops is at it again. Not sure who this Kottek guy is.
[2022-05-31 20:30:25]
[Kristian Andersen]
Such a giant waste of time. Read the fucking papers, people.
[2022-05-31 20:42:31]
[Eddie Holmes]
So dumb.
[2022-06-01 01:17:57]
[Robert Garry]
foia's for sr and tulane comimg i'm sure...
[2022-06-01 01:34:57]
[Andrew Rambaut]
I have no record of a meeting on the 7th. Nothing in my diary, no mention in emails.
[2022-06-01 01:41:45]
SLACK_001335Released by Chairman Rand Paul
[Andrew Rambaut]
Ah. I get it. She sees the document ‘Summary.Feb7.pdf’ and assumes it is the summary of a meeting (the ‘series of
TC meetings’ that Jeremy mentions). Whereas it is actually our first draft based on the only meeting we had and the
work we had done in the intervening time.