Uploaded May 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
SOURCES:
1:18 -- "Common Sense on Homosexuality" -- Fool4alifetime
1:49 "Born Homosexual" -- by Emptywithoutjesus (on the 2012 Golden Crocoduck nominee playlist)
2:03 -- "Ricky Gervais on Animals". PLEASE NOTE: This is just a reference to the video, it is not a reference to academic works or any kind of evidence for animal homosexuality. For proper references please see:
“Animal homosexuality: a biosocial perspective” A Poiani, AF Dixson, 2010
“Homosexual behaviour in animals: an evolutionary perspective”
V Sommer, PL Vasey - 2006
“Biological exuberance: Animal homosexuality and natural diversity”
B Bagemihl - 1999 - Macmillan
“Homosexuality in animals”
F Schutz, 1966
“Homosexuality in greylag geese”
K Kotrschal, J Hemetsberger, BM Wei - 2005 -
"Evolution and homosexuality: A review" -- Ahmed Ibrahim Masoud
"Homosexual behavior in primates: A review of evidence and theory" -- PL Vasey - International Journal of Primatology, 1995
8:49 -- Evolution: Darwin HATES Homosexuals -- AVTPro
11:43 -- "Genetic and Environmental Effects on Same-sex Sexual Behaviour: A Population Study of Twins in Sweden." Langstrom et al., Archive of Sexual Behaviour, 2010
12:30 -- "Genetic and Environmental Influence on Sexual Orientation as it Correlates in an Australian Twin Sample," Bailey et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology March 2000
12:50 -- "Familiality of female and male homosexuality" -- J. Michael Bailey and Alan P. Bell 1993, Handbook of Behavior Genetics
13:14 -- "Homosexuality and evolution" by Goldengun85
14:32 -- "Genetic factors predisposing to homosexuality may increase mating success in heterosexuals" -- Brendan P. Zietsch et al., Evolution & Human Behavior, November 2008
15:08 -- Ibid.
[Music: "Glad to be gay" Tom Robinson Band]
SOURCES:
1:18 -- "Common Sense on Homosexuality" -- Fool4alifetime
1:49 "Born Homosexual" -- by Emptywithoutjesus (on the 2012 Golden Crocoduck nominee playlist)
2:03 -- "Ricky Gervais on Animals". PLEASE NOTE: This is just a reference to the video, it is not a reference to academic works or any kind of evidence for animal homosexuality. For proper references please see:
“Animal homosexuality: a biosocial perspective” A Poiani, AF Dixson, 2010
“Homosexual behaviour in animals: an evolutionary perspective”
V Sommer, PL Vasey - 2006
“Biological exuberance: Animal homosexuality and natural diversity”
B Bagemihl - 1999 - Macmillan
“Homosexuality in animals”
F Schutz, 1966
“Homosexuality in greylag geese”
K Kotrschal, J Hemetsberger, BM Wei - 2005 -
"Evolution and homosexuality: A review" -- Ahmed Ibrahim Masoud
"Homosexual behavior in primates: A review of evidence and theory" -- PL Vasey - International Journal of Primatology, 1995
8:49 -- Evolution: Darwin HATES Homosexuals -- AVTPro
11:43 -- "Genetic and Environmental Effects on Same-sex Sexual Behaviour: A Population Study of Twins in Sweden." Langstrom et al., Archive of Sexual Behaviour, 2010
12:30 -- "Genetic and Environmental Influence on Sexual Orientation as it Correlates in an Australian Twin Sample," Bailey et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology March 2000
12:50 -- "Familiality of female and male homosexuality" -- J. Michael Bailey and Alan P. Bell 1993, Handbook of Behavior Genetics
13:14 -- "Homosexuality and evolution" by Goldengun85
14:32 -- "Genetic factors predisposing to homosexuality may increase mating success in heterosexuals" -- Brendan P. Zietsch et al., Evolution & Human Behavior, November 2008
15:08 -- Ibid.
[Music: "Glad to be gay" Tom Robinson Band]

![Was the climate better during the age of the dinosaurs? (More climate “facts” bite the dust.)
DONATIONS:
To support this channel, please dont send me money. I prefer people donate to a charity I support called Health in Harmony. See my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-GRugP9pU for details.
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PLEASE NOTE: 1) The smoke you see in the photo of a cement plant is not CO2 (obviously.) The CO2 in the photo is invisible.
2) “Taking the mickey” means to make fun or treat someone like an idiot.
SOURCES
Ivor Cummins video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjozntXnZ4&t=906s
CO2 coalition
https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/25-Top-Climate-FACTS-CO2-from-Co2Coalition.org-resource.pdf
Library of Congress showing link between CO2 Coalition and George C. Marshall Inst.
https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0002405/
Marshall admission of funding by Exxon:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020913050409/http://www.marshall.org/funding.htm
Exxon annual donations:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150907045825/http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=36
CO2 at 180ppm acc Coalition:
https://co2coalition.org/facts/dangerously-low-co2-last-four-glacial-advances/
(Taken from Historical Carbon Dioxide Record from the Vostok Ice Core (417,160 - 2,342 years BP – Barnola 2003))
Pleistoicene CO2 below 180ppm:
https://www.thefosterlab.org/mpt
CO2 levels during Permian from:
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” Montañez et al, 2006
CO2 levels during Permian
The Siberian Traps and the End-Permian mass extinction: A critical review – Saunders et al 2009
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-during-the-Permian-shown-as-parts-per_fig5_225378751
“could increase it to more than 2000 parts per million by volume (ppmv) as accessible fossil fuel reservoirs are exhausted (3).”
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” Montañez, 2007
“15 Pa (below Pleistocene minimum), 27 Pa (pre-industrial), 35 Pa (current) and 70 Pa (predicted future). After 35 days of growth, CO 2 had no effect on the relative growth rate, total biomass or partitioning of biomass in the C 4 species. However, the C 3 species had greater biomass accumulation with increasing CO 2 partial pressure.”
“Strain Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals”
Oecologia (1995) Dippery et al.
At a concentration of about 150 ppm or less, many plants die of CO2 starvation.
https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Carbon-Dioxide-Benefits-the-World-2.pdf
“Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals I1. Photosynthesis and leaf biochemistry” – Tissue et al 1995
“Plant responses to low [CO2] of the past”
Gerhart and ward 2010
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03441.x
Jurassic map from:
“A new marattiaceous fern from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia (Argentina): The renaissance of Marattiopsis”
Escapa et al. 2014
“Palaeo-wildfires in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Western and Central Europe – Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental significance”
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments Dieter Uhl 2012
Oxygen levels
Berner et al., 2007 http://www.sciencemag.org /content/316/5824/557.summary
Solar luminocity reconstruction:
https://environmental-geology-dev.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/changes-in-solar-output-and-in-the-earths-atmosphere/
Carboniferous map:
“Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview”
Oplustil et al 2021
Publication: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Oxygen levels from:
“Oxygen and Evolution” – Berner et al. 2007
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1140273
See also:
Late Triassic and Early Jurassic palaeogeography of the world
Jan Golonka - 2007
Jurassic deserts:
Earliest Jurassic U-Pb ages from carbonate deposits in the Navajo Sandstone, southeastern Utah, USA - Parrish 2019 Was the climate better during the age of the dinosaurs? (More climate “facts” bite the dust.)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZqA4bDVmBB8/mqdefault.jpg)

![More man-made SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak malarky
CORRECTIONS:
1) Although I was correct in saying there is a 99% similarity between humans and chimpanzees, and 96% between SARS-Cov2 and RaTG13, there have been comments in the forum about whether the comparison is appropriate. Ill just sum this up by saying that clearly ape genomes and virus genomes are not comparing like-for-like, the comparison merely highlights the difference that a small genetic difference can make in an organism. The point being made which hasnt changed is that it would take years to forcibly evolve SARS-Cov2 from RaTG13 in a lab, even if it could be done.
Also, for clarification, I am talking about *genetic* differences. I said in the video: On the second argument, a response paper to Segreto and Deigin pointed out that theres about a 4% *genetic* difference between RaTG13 and SARS-Cov-2. That may not sound like much, but theres only a 1% genetic diference between humans and chimpanzees. This refers to the number of differences between the genes of one species or organism and another.
2) One of the posters wrote: At 6.27 - The paper by Zou et al is describing RmYNO2. This virus does not contain a furin site, but an insertion of amino-acids at the furin site position found in SARS-COV2. The idea is that amino acid insertions can naturally occur and subsequent point mutation could lead to a furin site.
3) @12:54 the wrong images are shown for the sources. The correct sources are listed below under SOURCES
DONATIONS TO CHARITY:
The charity I urge people to donate to (instead of sending money to me) is called Health in Harmony (see my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-GRugP9pU.) It funds hospitals and affordable health care to villages on the edge of a national parks, in return for a pledge not to cut down trees. The pledges are monitored, and the result has been a dramatic decrease in deforestation rates and an increase in the health of the local population.
Thanks to your generous contributions, the founders are spreading the idea to other countries.
See also https://psmag.com/social-justice/save-the-trees-well-save-your-life-46121 for an explanation of their work.
You can make a donation by bank transfer here…
https://healthinharmony.org/donate/
I have now monetized my channel, and am in the process of setting Health in Harmony up as the beneficiary. When this is done, ads will start appearng at the beginning of my videos.
SOURCES:
My video Did SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-r0capbzk&t=1275s
RaTG13 could not be a proximal source of the Wuhan virus:
https://virological.org/t/tackling-rumors-of-a-suspicious-origin-of-ncov2019/384
Example of a similar furin cleavage site in nature:
A Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to SARSCoV-2 Contains Natural Insertions at the S1/S2 Cleavage Site of the Spike Protein
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(20)30662-X.pdf
How the furin cleavage site can evolve:
A palindromic RNA sequence as a common breakpoint contributor to copy-choice recombination in SARS-COV-2
Nature article critiquing claim about the furin cleavage site being unique:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01541-z
“RaTG13 is too divergent to be this ancestral virus,” David Robertson, the head of viral genomics and bioinformatics at the University of Glasgow:
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/06/scicheck-the-facts-and-gaps-on-the-origin-of-the-coronavirus/
] If the RaTG13 genome had been used as the backbone for the creation of SARS-CoV-2, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) group would have needed to passage it in cells or animals for years to accumulate 3.8% sequence divergence.
Response to Segreto and Deigin:
There is no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 laboratory origin: Response to Segreto and Deigin (DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000240) Not yet peer-reviewed:
My information that humans and chimps share 99% of DNA comes from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/01/18/humans-and-chimpanzees-share-99-of-the-same-dna-this-is-the-1-difference/).
Piplani et. al paper on ACE2 affinity:
In silico comparison of SARS CoV 2 spike protein ACE2 binding afnities across species and implications for virus origin
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92388-5.pdf
On SARS-CoV-2 being unlikely due to serial passage (lab evolution) because of a lack of human immune system signature:
@12:54
Finally, the generation of the predicted O-linked glycans is also unlikely to have occurred due to cell-culture passage, as such features suggest the involvement of an immune system18.
Andersen et al., Nature Medicine 2020:
This strongly implies SARS-CoV-2 could not have been developed in a lab, even by a system of simulated natural selection.
https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part3?fbclid=IwAR3W1WYE4MKDcr_Y62h01yi1S8Z5lAGopPEuAkqwtjGKiWzVbTNgdwRrvec More man-made SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak malarky](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aX1EqRuVeU0/mqdefault.jpg)





![2013 coveted Golden Crocoduck winner!
St. Jude Thaddeus Day, dedicated to the patron saint of lost causes, is upon us once again, and that means its Golden Crocoduck time. No, dont expect me to tell you who won in the video description, are you nuts??
[Music: A-chi-li-pu by Ragga Pu] 2013 coveted Golden Crocoduck winner!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c9n63XxjWr8/mqdefault.jpg)
