Category Archives: Disasters

Gwynne Dyer: Designing New Molecules of Death

[NOTE: The burgeoning AI saga gets more unnerving every week. Here’s a concise report on how it’s now “imagining” new killer molecules, not yet actually made, but which (probably soon) can be. How will they be stopped or controlled —?]

Making Unbelievably Lethal Designer Molecules

Gwynne Dyer — Feb 27, 2023

We are but one very small company (among) many hundreds of companies using AI software for drug discovery and de novo design. How many of them have…the know-how to find the pockets of chemical space that can be filled with molecules predicted to be orders of magnitude more toxic than VX?” This is a warning that requires a little explanation. Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Designing New Molecules of Death

How Erdogan’s Towering Corruption Turned Turkey’s Terrible Earthquake Into a Political Atrocity


Erdogan’s Epic Earthquake Fail. Will He Pay The Price?

by Gwynne Dyer, Opinion columnist — Feb. 12, 2023.

A highrise in Turkey, sagging after the quake

Six days after earthquakes killed tens of thousands in Syria and Turkey, sorrow and disbelief are turning to anger and tension. Many in Turkey have a sense that there has been an ineffective, unfair and disproportionate response to the historic disaster. Continue reading How Erdogan’s Towering Corruption Turned Turkey’s Terrible Earthquake Into a Political Atrocity