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This negative narrative around men risks exacerbating the gender empathy gap, part of a wider unconscious bias against men, recently identified as an aspect of gamma bias.
The idea that two of the most common and effective HPV vaccines in the world are “infertilizing poor colored children in Africa and India” is as absurd as it sounds.
In Pepys’s time a scarlet cross on the door denoted an infected household and sentinels stood guard outside to keep people inside.
Most people were now wearing masks, and a few were obviously nervous about inadvertently drifting too close.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has become the public face of such anxiety disorders.
If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants.
The language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements at even the most elite schools.
If liberal strategies end up providing weaker results than illiberal ones, liberals might want to revise not only their COVID-19 policy, but also some of their broader assumptions about human nature.
And if indeed “everything hangs on one’s thinking,” as he and his philosophical heirs frequently remind us, then this pandemic is just as much an opportunity as it is a curse.
As regular readers of Quillette will know, I work at a warehouse in West Sacramento, California, where every workday I toil in close quarters with dozens of other employees. In the days before the advent of the novel coronavirus pandemic, that wasn’t a problem. Now, however, it’s a
It was only after coronavirus proved so much more deadly in China and Italy that governments outside of Asia took dramatic actions including radical social distancing and stay-at-home orders.
New digital connections could incubate a new urban culture unlike any we have seen.
Physicians started to prepare families for the possibility of a delayed death.
Measures implemented too early are deemed “alarmist,” if implemented too late, “negligent.”
Once committed though to a “breast cancer is emasculating” mantra, some health sociologists and patients have come up with a wordplay workaround.