A Short History of Long Covid
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Another strange post-COVID symptom—dubbed COVID toes—gained notoriety when NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers joked about his broken toe being a result of his r... Read more.
John Snow vs. “The Science”
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Treatment of cholera nowadays is pretty simple, requiring antibiotics and intravenous electrolyte-balanced fluids until the patient stabilizes and the infection... Read more.
Society at Peak Shared Misery
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If a permanent government employee broke a regulation, they could not be fired. There was no real way to punish them. But what could be done was make a new regu... Read more.
Questions for a Congressional Inquiry
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Members of the U.S. Congress are conducting such an inquiry, and their efforts require the help of physicians, scientists and public health policy experts to id... Read more.
Cultural Differences Between Scandinavia and the US Could Account for Pandemic Approaches
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They’ve apologized for killing the mink, which is another interesting thing about Denmark, the apologies. Which I love, even though it’s a little bitter, be... Read more.
It Was Politics that Drove the Science
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Politically driven science at the CDC and other government health agencies was not limited to mask studies. Risks of severe or long COVID and benefits of COVID ... Read more.
There Was No Pandemic Mastermind
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All one had to do was believe the illusion. Because of the absolute terror of the unknown and complete ignorance of the risks of severe disease and death, most ... Read more.
A Sociology of Fear
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Steve Templeton talks with sociologist Dr. Frank Furedi, author of How Fear Works: Culture of Fear in the 21st Century, about the continuity of the culture of f... Read more.
Germophobes to the Left and Right
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With two years of overreaction to and media obsession with the myriad of ways that COVID-19 can kill or permanently disable people, there’s reason to believe ... Read more.
Plagues and the Unleashing of Power
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We can see the long arm of history reaching from the times of the Black Death to modern epidemics, where coercion and state control are accepted by a terrified ... Read more.
War Was Always the Wrong Metaphor
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With two full years of hindsight, it’s clear that lockdowns were a disaster and that mandated measures caused more harm than benefit, yet this has not prevent... Read more.
The High Costs of the Appearance of Safety
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The public demanded control over something that couldn’t be controlled. Local, state, and national leaders, whether they understood that they couldn’t actua... Read more.