I highly recommend Dark Waters (it's on Netflix in the US as of a few days ago). It covers a lot of PFAS history and politics in the US. It also finally convinced someone I know to stop thinking it's fine to eat teflon flakes and stop scratching up the nonstick.
I gotta say, it's pretty amazing to me that this was written by an engineering manager. None of the EMs I've worked with would be capable of discussing our codebase at this level of technical detail. Even the ones that used to be engineers.
Although to be fair, we don't have any EMs who were promoted from within. We have a bad habit of hiring managers from outside, as nobody internally really wants to stop doing engineering (myself included).
C/C++ is like water/alcohol; certainly they look very similar to an uninvolved observer, and one can mix them easily, but they differ drastically. One is an utterly simple life substrate, another is a toxic and hallucinogenic but potent rocket fuel.
For the record, Torvalds has always vehemently resisted any attempts to use C++ in the kernel. I completely support his position.
We actually do know gain of function research on coronaviruses was done in Wuhan, because there are public papers covering that research, which directly discuss gain of function techniques used. And those papers have Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth, listed as an author. EcoHealth is the organization that the NIAID (Fauci’s agency) gave funding to for coronavirus research, and that grant is also public. This is all pretty easy to prove, but mainstream media did not investigate it at all, and social media banned discussion of it by independent journalists.
The big problem was that China denied any site visit to WIV for almost a year, probably so that no evidence would exist. And then the WHO, probably under the CCP and Fauci’s direction, rejected Trump’s nominations for a representative for the US to visit WIV, and instead sent Peter Daszak. Basically the WHO sent the person who should have been under investigation for causing the pandemic.
