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The Psychologisation Pandemic

Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics.

Samuel Kronen

4 Nov 2024 · 18 min read

The Lab-Leak Illusion

The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.

Jamie Palmer

19 Aug 2023 · 53 min read

Masking Uncertainty in Public Health

Had it actually been “following the science,” the CDC would have transparently communicated its uncertainty at every step.

Mark Alan Smith

18 Apr 2023 · 12 min read

The Months the Earth Stood Still

Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself?

George Case

19 Nov 2022 · 9 min read

Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID—A Review

While the overall U.S. response to the pandemic was tragically deficient, we can learn a lot from the public-private partnership that sped vaccine development.

Josh Morrison

28 Jun 2022 · 7 min read

We’re Still Waiting for a Great Post-COVID Pandemic Novel

Fiction writers are used to working in lonely isolation. Maybe that’s why the stories they’ve written about the pandemic seem so out of touch

Neal Pollack

30 May 2022 · 16 min read

Shanghai on the Edge of Madness

Starvation will push and pull human psychology in unusual directions—it is one of the few things that can overcome fear of the authorities. When famine came to China 400 years ago, it made Chinese peasants receptive to the preachers of class war. When the government failed to provide crucial

Aaron Sarin

18 Apr 2022 · 6 min read

On DarkHorse, Ivermectin, and Vaccine Hesitancy

The following transcript comes from an interview for Iconoclast: Ideas that have Shaped the Culture Wars. It was conducted by Mark Halloran with Eric Topol on October 14th, 2021. Mark Halloran is Editor of Iconoclast. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and a BA in Behavioural Science. Eric Topol is

Mark Halloran

22 Mar 2022 · 24 min read

The Fight Over What Children Learn

The model of life they imagine is based on the myth of an all-purpose education designed by experts to allow every child to choose any future they like.

Moshe Krakowski

29 Jan 2022 · 7 min read

Outback Australia and the Information Wars

How Maajid Nawaz and Tim Pool amplified misinformation about COVID-19 in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities, overshadowing the effective responses led by legitimate Aboriginal leaders.

Matthew Blackwell

7 Dec 2021 · 14 min read

What is Happening to My Profession?

Some of the people who are refusing the life-saving COVID vaccine are alienated from mainstream institutions, which they view as house organs of the political Left rather than trustworthy arbiters of truth.

Sally Satel

30 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

Vaccine Rejectionism and the Left

The coronavirus pandemic has caused massive backtracking and spin-doctoring among progressive parties over bioengineered vaccines.

Jon Entine / Patrick Whittle

21 Oct 2021 · 17 min read

Vaccinology, Immunology, and COVID-19

Vaccine technology has sped ahead, serving the critical function to break the link between infection and poor outcomes.

Jesse Pelletier

6 Oct 2021 · 6 min read

Podcast #166: Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia’s COVID ‘Concentration Camps’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews ABC presenter and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia’s unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country’s quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

19 Sep 2021 · 1 min read

Understanding the Motivated Reasoning of Anti-Vax Refuseniks

Vaccine refusal also correlates with a feeling of alienation from the wider culture—what sociologists call “anomie.”

Richard Redding

15 Sep 2021 · 6 min read