Playing God: Insect Allies & The World Mosquito Program
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Welcome back to the BNP and thank you so much for joining! I'm back in the saddle friends and this episode's a fun one! We got the zany audio morsels, you already know. We got a riverside soliloquy about mortality and, you guessed it, quantum physics. And we got some salubrious and invigorating veggies for your brain vittles.
Topics include the dystopian project out of friend-of-show DARPA called Insect Allies, which involves infecting bugs with synthetic viruses so they can then infect crops with synthetic viruses, because national security. What could possible go wrong? If Daddy DARPA does it, it MUST be safe, effective, necessary and totally cool!
Also covered is the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust funded World Mosquito Project, which, you know, just infects mosquitos with Wolbachia bacteria that fucks with their reproductive systems, and then releases them en masse into wild ecosystems around S. America, S.E. Asia, the Pacific Islands and Florida. I'm sure there won't be any hellish unforeseen blowback from this chicanery; it'll probably work exactly as intended and everything will be totally chill.
Lastly, I feature a recent Yak Fest w/ Dr. Sylvie where we discuss the oligarch billionaires poised to profit off of "Big Green" amidst the global climate "action" mania.
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