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• Bill Arnold commented on The Pivot
  Re the rDT tweet thread "Heading to Helsinki, Finland" and We are not joking when we say "that's a [redacted], openly transmitting". Is there a (meat) ID at least? @sleepingroutine: Scientists being busy/helpful. Vast new complexities found: Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient Here, we aimed to investigate how viruses influence microbial ecology and carbon metabolism in peatland soils along a permafrost thaw gradient in Sweden. ... Although viral ecology is largely unexplored in soils, viruses lyse approximately one-third of ocean microorganisms per day, can metabolically reprogramme their hosts during infection and act as agents of horizontal...
• Pigeon commented on The Pivot
  "IMHO, "CO2 pollution" is the real red herring" Well, yes, I tend to have some sympathy with that point of view, although I think my angle is not quite the same as yours. I don't share the trust in the science that most people on here exhibit. It is too politicised; it was born of politics, it has been carried out in an intensely political atmosphere, and I don't trust its results not to owe more to politics than science. (It wouldn't be the only current scientific endeavour that is buggered by political considerations, and it is almost certainly by...
• Greg Tingey commented on The Pivot
  @ 1455 & others Not "Belsan" - in your case much more likely to be "Elsan" ( A Britsh joke ) MODERATORS: Wasn't there supposed to be a directive asking people not to engage in personally insulting behaviour? Which seems to have been ignored somewhat by a certain person.... 1463 Newsflash: there. is. no. left. in. US. politics REALLY? Quite sure about that?...
• Elderly Cynic commented on The Pivot
  Yes. It is a pity that it didn't also include hate speech, which set that person off....
• Moderator Alan commented on The Pivot
  I have now unpublished the entire sequence from when the initial attack occurred. Given that this thread is well beyond its Use By date, I'm also closing it....