Vaccine Hesitancy and the Covid Pandemic Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of the anti-vaccine movement. Roger Bate 15 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
Will the New Vaccine Help Eradicate Malaria? The malaria vaccine may well help reduce deaths, but we should not exaggerate its efficacy. Roger Bate 5 Feb 2024 · 7 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
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
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
COVID-Zero: Was It Worth It? If COVID-19 was your ancestor’s saber-tooth tiger, then the lives lost every day to COVID-Zero is the cost of running away. James Newburrie 9 Aug 2021 · 11 min read
On the Dangers of Big COVID One need not posit some secret cabal of illuminati lizard people or the creation of a clandestine 5G-COVID bioweapon to make sense of the rise and potential dangers of Big COVID. Michael Robillard 3 Jul 2021 · 14 min read
The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention. Zachary Robert Caverley 13 May 2021 · 12 min read
Winning the War on Coronavirus The governments of the US, UK, and other nations have made real progress, but they must go much further in being transparent about their vision of how to win the war on coronavirus, and what they are doing to achieve it. Michael Shellenberger 19 Mar 2020 · 9 min read
Dealing With a Once-In-A-Century Pathogen Measures implemented too early are deemed “alarmist,” if implemented too late, “negligent.” Claire Lehmann 3 Mar 2020 · 8 min read
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science The bottom line is that professional guilds such as the APA and AAP have a demonstrable track record of unreliability when speaking on matters of science. Christopher J. Ferguson 23 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
Plastic Pollution is a Real Problem—and It Won't Be Solved by Straw Bans Majority of micro-plastics emerge as a waste product from the laundering of synthetic clothing and the wear-down of synthetic rubber automobile tyres. Andrew Glover 5 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
