Book Review: The Science Behind Aesop’s Menagerie
In “Aesop’s Animals,” zoologist Jo Wimpenny provides a guided tour of animal behavior drawn from the classic fables.
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Covid: “The Narrative Is Crumbling”
The Covid spin-doctoring machine is staring to emit smoke.
Read more...Patient, Beware: Some States Still Pushing Ineffective Covid Antibody Treatments
We warned from Omicron’s onset that most monoclonal antibodies would be ineffective, yet lots of MDs have not gotten the memo.
Read more...Book Review: Why Our Emotions Are So Powerful
Science writer Leonard Mlodinow explores our emotions’’ ability to spur intelligent, nuanced action.
Read more...CORBEVAX, a New Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine, Could Be a Pandemic Game Changer Globally
Corbevax, a protein subunit vaccine, is easier to produce than current Covid vaccines. But short duration of immunity remains a concern.
Read more...More on the Morbidity Risk of Omicron: “Like a Chess Grandmaster Playing Against Schoolboys”
A lot of the misunderstanding of Omicron is actively cultivated.
Read more...More Covid Delusion: Thermography for Health Endangers Patient Health via Eschewing Masks in Favor of Ozone
A shaggy dog story on how Thermography for Health endangers patients also illustrates the “ozone protection” con/self delusion.
Read more...“They Really Are Trying to Kill Us”
A tale of elite negligence.
Read more...Maybe No Omicron Boosters?
The Administration, in the form of Dr. Fauci, is taking another anti-public-health stance by talking down Omicron boosters.
Read more...More Cheery Omicron News
The latest Omicron findings.
Read more...Omicron: Fog of Information and Definitions
More Omicron updates and musings.
Read more...Book Review: Demystifying the Idea of Consciousness
In “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious,” neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the mystery of consciousness.
Read more...Omicron Happy Talk in the US v. Toughening Restrictions in UK, Israel
An attempt to pull some signal out of a lot of Omicron noise.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb: No, Covid 19 Is Not an Old Person Problem
Yves here. Nassim Nicholas Taleb shreds the misguided logic behind Covid age-ism. And that’s before getting to the fact that in South Africa, the notion that the old are more likely to get really sick is simply not true: The newscaster starts by describing an “exponential” rise in cases, then interviews the head of ICU […]
Read more...Vaccine Politics Not Working to Biden Administration Advantage
Omicron and vaccine hesitant essential workers are undermining Biden’s vaccine-fixated Covid strategy.
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