George Church, Colossal W*nker
From mammoths to eugenics to anti-aging scams: god-impersonator George Church knows how to make money with bullshit.
Category: Megaproject
“In Silico” – Interview with film director about Henry Markram and Human Brain Project
“I sensed I was not that meaningfully closer to documenting the creation of a simulated, behaving brain as I had been when I started making the film years ago” – Noah Hutton
Cold Fusion by EU Commission: a Fleischmann-Pons revival
Cold Fusion is back, and EU Commission now funds it with €10 million. One project specifically builds on Fleischmann and Pons, the other is run by Italy’s most notorious Cold Fusion loon, Francesco Celani.
Graphene Flagship deploys Stripy Stellacci to fight the Coronavirus
How can EU Flagships help with coronavirus pandemic? Human Brain Project offers IT power and cigarettes, while Graphene Flagship established a COVID-19 Task Force. With Francesco “Stripy” Stellacci as virology expert!
New ERC President Mauro Ferrari was partner of Texas cheater Anil Sood
The new ERC President Mauro Ferrari used to closely collaborate with two very controversial cancer researchers at MD Anderson in Texas: Anil Sood and Gabriel Lopez-Beerestein. Will that experience affect ERC’s already wanting stance on research integrity?
The alpha males of physics
Two sets of events for Women in STEM: the theoretical physicist Alessandro Strumia, soon likely ex-CERN affiliated, decried feminist conspiracies and the discrimination against males like himself, in a workshop talk on gender. Right after, the Nobel Prize for physics was finally after 55 years given to a woman. Thing is: one of the other recipients, Gerard Mourou, made it clear in a 2013 video what the roles of males and females in physics are.
Interview with Human Brain Project director Katrin Amunts
I finally succeeded to interview the only woman among Human Brain Project leaders, the scientific director Katrin Amunts. In my previous article, I published a non-interview, using bits from HBP website as stand-in for her answers. Now, in this long read, Professor Amunts provided me with her replies.
Megagrant, the Russian docu-novel of Paolo Macchiarini
This is my review of the Russian book “Megagrant”, which tells of Macchiarini’s adventures with the plastic trachea, much of it played out in Russia, funded by a state Megagrant of €4.5mn. Some books are namely only good as court evidence.
Failed interview with Human Brain Project director Katrin Amunts
I was keen to interview the only woman among Human Brain Project leaders, the scientific director Katrin Amunts. In November 2017, she agreed to do an interview by email. In March 2018, Amunts announced that “the manuscript already has a veritable size of several pages”. She never contacted me since. This is therefore a non-interview.
Human Brain Project interview with Thomas Lippert: Simulating brain in computer is like simulating weather
Following is my email interview with Thomas Lippert, professor and director of the Institute for Advanced Simulation and the Jülich SupercomputingContinue Reading
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