The “Boys Will Be Boys” of Science
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As a consequence of their successful lobbying and jockeying for power, they got what they wanted - their research was heavily funded, their labs staffed, and th... Read more.
Lab Origin: The Case is Even Stronger Now
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New evidence has emerged to strengthen the lab origin case. The flawed papers claiming a zoonotic origin have been revealed as even more hopelessly flawed - whi... Read more.
Covid Amnesty: Is Mercy the Answer?
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Until we have meaningful reconciliation, amnesty will merely cement the incumbents’ hold on academic, media, and narrative power, all but ensuring we repeat t... Read more.
What Some Call “Anti-Science” Is Just Anti-authoritarianism
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It is not “Anti-Science” to question the policies recommended by scientists or to investigate the possibility that scientists cause a pandemic. What Hotez c... Read more.
The Dangerous Game of Gain-of-Function Research
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The Fauci Paradox tempts us to allow scientists to regulate science, to Follow the Science and Trust the Experts, but trusting the experts can lead us to our do... Read more.
Science Is Not to Be Trusted
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Science is not a belief system, so it’s not something to be trusted. Science is a social process which anyone can join, it is a conversation with evidence to ... Read more.
What Is the Value of a Covid Test?
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If you tested yourself on a random day when you had no symptoms, your one test would probably say “You’re Negative,” and that wouldn’t change your behav... Read more.
Justice Department Appeals to Get Masks Back on Airlines, Buses, and Trains
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Over a silly definition of “sanitation”, the CDC appears willing to gamble a pillar of our modern society’s constitutional law, a legal cornerstone of our... Read more.
Ethnocentrism and Political Intolerance: A Two Year Retrospective on the Pandemic Response
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Across our vast, heterogenous human populations of the US, a policy or a public health message that works where you live may very well harm people who live some... Read more.
The Silencing of the Scientists
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As the pile of unshared science grows, our scientific understanding of crises like pandemics suffers from the attrition of the science it doesn’t know. It sho... Read more.
Why Were They So Obtuse about the Terrible Harms They Would Inflict?
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It’s essential we debrief on the harm we caused – the epidemiological harm we simply displaced and converted to economic harm that, at the end of the chain,... Read more.