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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 / Jonathan Kay

19 Sep 2021 ·

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 · 5 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 · 10 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 · 11 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 · 7 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 · 7 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 · 5 min read