Maintenance in progress

a heterodox current is gaining respectability at two edges at once: mainstream science outlets are running arguments that lamarckian inheritance — long treated as discredited — must be partly restored to explain observed evolutionary anomalies, while in parallel a fringe-finance and health ecosystem is pushing claims that the original covid reference genome was published without a reconstructable chain from clinical specimen to sequence, timed to rand paul's document releases. these are unrelated claims sharing one shape: the assertion that an established scientific record is missing its provenance.

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