Tim C

Interested in practical application of tech and what's not in the textbook. I know a bit about many things so a mix of subjects & not just following the crowd.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

I have a BSc (Comp). It had science subjects incl stats & psychology. I've had a long family history of a love-hate relationship with medicine. Most probably meant well but weren't always right. Some tweets maybe forthright, sarcastic or opposing view. Views are my own. YMMV.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@ivan_8848 The number of labs she mentioned was around the world, not just in Ukraine. Her map showed locations like Kyiv in the wrong location & claiming they were still funding labs in Ru occupied territory. There's no evidence of mass production/storage/missiles.
https://t.co/6OqjX5iSsL

[Pete @splendid_pete]

This video was published in January 2020.

And that timing matters, because it shows Russian “Ukrainian biolab” propaganda did not magically appear after the 2022 invasion. Moscow had been dragging this corpse of a conspiracy around for years, especially against Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other post-Soviet countries that dared to cooperate with the West.

The video explains the U.S. Biological Threat Reduction Program as exactly what the name says: a threat-reduction program. Its purpose was to help partner countries secure dangerous Soviet-era pathogens, improve disease detection, strengthen public-health laboratories, and stop natural outbreaks from becoming regional security disasters. In Ukraine, the official priority was to consolidate and secure pathogens and help detect and report disease outbreaks before they became wider threats. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency also states that the work was peaceful, subject to export-control and vetting processes, and did not sponsor gain-of-function research or human experimentation.

The video also makes clear why Russia hated these labs: not because they were secret weapons sites, but because they represented Western cooperation with countries Moscow still treats like stolen property. Georgia’s Lugar Center is the perfect example. Russia smeared it as a U.S. proxy bioweapons facility, while Georgia opened it to international review. In 2018, 22 experts and observers from 17 countries inspected the Lugar Center under the Biological Weapons Convention framework and found transparency around its activities. Russian experts were invited, then refused to participate, because obviously the propaganda works better when you never look at the evidence.

So the Russian narrative is not “skepticism.” It is geopolitical sewage with a lab coat thrown over it. The same machine that calls invasions “liberation” and civilian massacres “staged” also tried to turn public-health laboratories into cartoon villain bioweapon factories. The goal was not truth. The goal was fear, confusion, and poisoning public trust in countries moving closer to the West.

The whole point of the video is transparency: these projects were not classified, scientists were encouraged to publish, international experts were invited in, and the work was described as peaceful public-health cooperation. Russia’s claim was the opposite: secret U.S. bioweapons plots on Russia’s borders. One side offered inspections, publications, and open cooperation. The other side offered paranoia, state media hysteria, and the usual Kremlin swamp gas.

This is basically pre-2022 evidence that the “Ukrainian biolab” panic was never a serious argument. It was an old Russian disinformation weapon, reheated when useful, then thrown into the invasion narrative to make Russia look like the victim while it was the aggressor.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@ivan_8848 What was shown in Mariupol was BSL-2 at best when bio-weapon research needs atleast BSL-3 & BSL-4. No equipment for mass production, no mass storage tanks, no bio-weapon warheads, no missiles capable of delivering. Nothing threatening at all.
Ru just lies & exaggerates.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@Gerashchenko_en Aliens have helped arm Ukraine with advanced technology not seen in wars till now.
What Western allies & the enemy (Ru) thought impossible or take several years, were achieved by Ukrainians in months.
https://t.co/iF7T5WxJQI

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@aleksthgrt Russian forces are advancing in all directions...
..
..
.. either towards Moscow or to their eternity in hell.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@wartranslated Russian air defences still sleeping? Probably sleeping in Moscow because there's no useful Ru air defences near the oil refineries & military related factories in the rest of Moscow.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@Gerashchenko_en Advanced all the way to his eternity in hell.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@ivan_8848 @eshaLegal Same old exaggerations and lies from Russia.
https://t.co/6OqjX5iSsL

[Pete @splendid_pete]

This video was published in January 2020.

And that timing matters, because it shows Russian “Ukrainian biolab” propaganda did not magically appear after the 2022 invasion. Moscow had been dragging this corpse of a conspiracy around for years, especially against Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other post-Soviet countries that dared to cooperate with the West.

The video explains the U.S. Biological Threat Reduction Program as exactly what the name says: a threat-reduction program. Its purpose was to help partner countries secure dangerous Soviet-era pathogens, improve disease detection, strengthen public-health laboratories, and stop natural outbreaks from becoming regional security disasters. In Ukraine, the official priority was to consolidate and secure pathogens and help detect and report disease outbreaks before they became wider threats. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency also states that the work was peaceful, subject to export-control and vetting processes, and did not sponsor gain-of-function research or human experimentation.

The video also makes clear why Russia hated these labs: not because they were secret weapons sites, but because they represented Western cooperation with countries Moscow still treats like stolen property. Georgia’s Lugar Center is the perfect example. Russia smeared it as a U.S. proxy bioweapons facility, while Georgia opened it to international review. In 2018, 22 experts and observers from 17 countries inspected the Lugar Center under the Biological Weapons Convention framework and found transparency around its activities. Russian experts were invited, then refused to participate, because obviously the propaganda works better when you never look at the evidence.

So the Russian narrative is not “skepticism.” It is geopolitical sewage with a lab coat thrown over it. The same machine that calls invasions “liberation” and civilian massacres “staged” also tried to turn public-health laboratories into cartoon villain bioweapon factories. The goal was not truth. The goal was fear, confusion, and poisoning public trust in countries moving closer to the West.

The whole point of the video is transparency: these projects were not classified, scientists were encouraged to publish, international experts were invited in, and the work was described as peaceful public-health cooperation. Russia’s claim was the opposite: secret U.S. bioweapons plots on Russia’s borders. One side offered inspections, publications, and open cooperation. The other side offered paranoia, state media hysteria, and the usual Kremlin swamp gas.

This is basically pre-2022 evidence that the “Ukrainian biolab” panic was never a serious argument. It was an old Russian disinformation weapon, reheated when useful, then thrown into the invasion narrative to make Russia look like the victim while it was the aggressor.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@ivan_8848 Europe isn't a threat to peace. A strong Europe is a threat to Russia's plans to re-establish it's empire and extend Ru control over more of Europe unopposed.
If Russia offensively uses a nuclear weapon (without nuclear weapon used against them 1st) then Russia will be destroyed.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@LauraLoomer @TulsiGabbard https://t.co/6OqjX5iSsL

[Pete @splendid_pete]

This video was published in January 2020.

And that timing matters, because it shows Russian “Ukrainian biolab” propaganda did not magically appear after the 2022 invasion. Moscow had been dragging this corpse of a conspiracy around for years, especially against Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other post-Soviet countries that dared to cooperate with the West.

The video explains the U.S. Biological Threat Reduction Program as exactly what the name says: a threat-reduction program. Its purpose was to help partner countries secure dangerous Soviet-era pathogens, improve disease detection, strengthen public-health laboratories, and stop natural outbreaks from becoming regional security disasters. In Ukraine, the official priority was to consolidate and secure pathogens and help detect and report disease outbreaks before they became wider threats. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency also states that the work was peaceful, subject to export-control and vetting processes, and did not sponsor gain-of-function research or human experimentation.

The video also makes clear why Russia hated these labs: not because they were secret weapons sites, but because they represented Western cooperation with countries Moscow still treats like stolen property. Georgia’s Lugar Center is the perfect example. Russia smeared it as a U.S. proxy bioweapons facility, while Georgia opened it to international review. In 2018, 22 experts and observers from 17 countries inspected the Lugar Center under the Biological Weapons Convention framework and found transparency around its activities. Russian experts were invited, then refused to participate, because obviously the propaganda works better when you never look at the evidence.

So the Russian narrative is not “skepticism.” It is geopolitical sewage with a lab coat thrown over it. The same machine that calls invasions “liberation” and civilian massacres “staged” also tried to turn public-health laboratories into cartoon villain bioweapon factories. The goal was not truth. The goal was fear, confusion, and poisoning public trust in countries moving closer to the West.

The whole point of the video is transparency: these projects were not classified, scientists were encouraged to publish, international experts were invited in, and the work was described as peaceful public-health cooperation. Russia’s claim was the opposite: secret U.S. bioweapons plots on Russia’s borders. One side offered inspections, publications, and open cooperation. The other side offered paranoia, state media hysteria, and the usual Kremlin swamp gas.

This is basically pre-2022 evidence that the “Ukrainian biolab” panic was never a serious argument. It was an old Russian disinformation weapon, reheated when useful, then thrown into the invasion narrative to make Russia look like the victim while it was the aggressor.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@ivan_8848 Many lies & exaggerations from the pro-Ru lunatics.
https://t.co/6OqjX5iSsL

[Pete @splendid_pete]

This video was published in January 2020.

And that timing matters, because it shows Russian “Ukrainian biolab” propaganda did not magically appear after the 2022 invasion. Moscow had been dragging this corpse of a conspiracy around for years, especially against Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other post-Soviet countries that dared to cooperate with the West.

The video explains the U.S. Biological Threat Reduction Program as exactly what the name says: a threat-reduction program. Its purpose was to help partner countries secure dangerous Soviet-era pathogens, improve disease detection, strengthen public-health laboratories, and stop natural outbreaks from becoming regional security disasters. In Ukraine, the official priority was to consolidate and secure pathogens and help detect and report disease outbreaks before they became wider threats. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency also states that the work was peaceful, subject to export-control and vetting processes, and did not sponsor gain-of-function research or human experimentation.

The video also makes clear why Russia hated these labs: not because they were secret weapons sites, but because they represented Western cooperation with countries Moscow still treats like stolen property. Georgia’s Lugar Center is the perfect example. Russia smeared it as a U.S. proxy bioweapons facility, while Georgia opened it to international review. In 2018, 22 experts and observers from 17 countries inspected the Lugar Center under the Biological Weapons Convention framework and found transparency around its activities. Russian experts were invited, then refused to participate, because obviously the propaganda works better when you never look at the evidence.

So the Russian narrative is not “skepticism.” It is geopolitical sewage with a lab coat thrown over it. The same machine that calls invasions “liberation” and civilian massacres “staged” also tried to turn public-health laboratories into cartoon villain bioweapon factories. The goal was not truth. The goal was fear, confusion, and poisoning public trust in countries moving closer to the West.

The whole point of the video is transparency: these projects were not classified, scientists were encouraged to publish, international experts were invited in, and the work was described as peaceful public-health cooperation. Russia’s claim was the opposite: secret U.S. bioweapons plots on Russia’s borders. One side offered inspections, publications, and open cooperation. The other side offered paranoia, state media hysteria, and the usual Kremlin swamp gas.

This is basically pre-2022 evidence that the “Ukrainian biolab” panic was never a serious argument. It was an old Russian disinformation weapon, reheated when useful, then thrown into the invasion narrative to make Russia look like the victim while it was the aggressor.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@aleksthgrt If Western money was being wasted in Ukraine, then Ru spending 3x more than Ukr on military/security would have Ru winning the war & controlling Kyiv.
Most of the USA aid went to USA companies producing the more adv versions to replace the soon to be expired old stock sent to Ukr

[Pete @splendid_pete]

This video was published in January 2020.

And that timing matters, because it shows Russian “Ukrainian biolab” propaganda did not magically appear after the 2022 invasion. Moscow had been dragging this corpse of a conspiracy around for years, especially against Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other post-Soviet countries that dared to cooperate with the West.

The video explains the U.S. Biological Threat Reduction Program as exactly what the name says: a threat-reduction program. Its purpose was to help partner countries secure dangerous Soviet-era pathogens, improve disease detection, strengthen public-health laboratories, and stop natural outbreaks from becoming regional security disasters. In Ukraine, the official priority was to consolidate and secure pathogens and help detect and report disease outbreaks before they became wider threats. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency also states that the work was peaceful, subject to export-control and vetting processes, and did not sponsor gain-of-function research or human experimentation.

The video also makes clear why Russia hated these labs: not because they were secret weapons sites, but because they represented Western cooperation with countries Moscow still treats like stolen property. Georgia’s Lugar Center is the perfect example. Russia smeared it as a U.S. proxy bioweapons facility, while Georgia opened it to international review. In 2018, 22 experts and observers from 17 countries inspected the Lugar Center under the Biological Weapons Convention framework and found transparency around its activities. Russian experts were invited, then refused to participate, because obviously the propaganda works better when you never look at the evidence.

So the Russian narrative is not “skepticism.” It is geopolitical sewage with a lab coat thrown over it. The same machine that calls invasions “liberation” and civilian massacres “staged” also tried to turn public-health laboratories into cartoon villain bioweapon factories. The goal was not truth. The goal was fear, confusion, and poisoning public trust in countries moving closer to the West.

The whole point of the video is transparency: these projects were not classified, scientists were encouraged to publish, international experts were invited in, and the work was described as peaceful public-health cooperation. Russia’s claim was the opposite: secret U.S. bioweapons plots on Russia’s borders. One side offered inspections, publications, and open cooperation. The other side offered paranoia, state media hysteria, and the usual Kremlin swamp gas.

This is basically pre-2022 evidence that the “Ukrainian biolab” panic was never a serious argument. It was an old Russian disinformation weapon, reheated when useful, then thrown into the invasion narrative to make Russia look like the victim while it was the aggressor.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@IuliiaMendel Dying to protect Ukraine's existence OR
Dying during Russian occupation from either torture, gulag or mobilised to fight for Russia against another victim of Ru imperialism?
Both options given to Ukr by Ru are bad, there's no easy way out but to send Russians home.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@maria_drutska "Everything is good" propaganda fails when Russians can see reality out their windows, at the fuel station, at the shops & when their work for oil/military are suspended due to Ukr attacking workplace. Understanding the war increases as more family/friends/neighbours WIA/KIA.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@raging545 Illegal Russian visitors are being given the 'warm welcome' they deserve and a hard lesson regarding reality vs Kremlin propaganda.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@ivan_8848 There's no evidence of mass production equipment, no mass storage tanks of bio-hazard, no product that could survive missile load/launch/impact, no warhead for protecting it & dispersion, no missiles capable of carrying it, no evidence of use by Ukr. It's just a fiction on paper.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@ivan_8848 Tulsie showed map with Kyiv in wrong place, bio-labs in Ru occupied territory (why was Ru still making bio-weapons there as she claims?). She copied documents attached to a report outlining the fake documents that Russia misinformation had published.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Today Ronald Reagan would say, “Mr Putin, get the hell out of Ukraine.”

He set the example for a strong “Peace through Strength” policy guided by strong values.

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@CollinsMikeyc @Kasparov63 The so-called ethnic Russians weren't voting majority to be annexed by Ru & fight against Ukr. Igor Girkin complained that few locals joined his rebels to fight for Ru against Ukr. https://t.co/tu48GcIawy

[Tim C @TimC_syd]

@CollinsMikeyc @Kasparov63 Even if there was a coup, there was no UN resolution, no explicit right for Russia to interfere. Accusations of Ukr attacking civilians before/after Ru invaded are lies. See for yourself who the aggressors were...
https://t.co/k0SCStby8P