Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below
Two troubling recent studies clarify projections of glacial ice loss, sea-level rise, and the need to act on climate.
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Why Don’t We Study Countries That Have Had COVID-19 Success?
Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, and New Zealand have recorded low COVID-19 deaths. Why do we hear so little about the reeasons for their success?
Read more...Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” Covid-19 Vaccine Development Program: Dominated by Military Personnel, Accused of Corruption
Operation Warp Speed is a public/private partnership set up by the Trump administration, which is developing several vaccines for Covid-19 in parallel.
Read more...Political HHS Appointees Demand Authority to Rewrite CDC Reports
Trump partisans and the ongoing war against the CDC; seeking authority to amend Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Reports.
Read more...How Charles Koch Is Buying Credibility With Academic Investments
Koch influence in the academic sphere is far ranging. Koch money funds individual courses, professorships, fellowships, and even energy research and policy programs. These are significant investments in the “intellectual raw materials” of free-market advocacy.
Read more...COVID: Where Science Goes To Die
A forceful critique of Covid-19 research.
Read more...US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Drug in the Last Decade
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers footed the bill for every new drug approved from 2010 to 2019
Read more...Could Religious Exemptions Trump a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate? Well, That Depends
How far could US authorities readily go in implemeting a vaccine requirement?
Read more...Don’t “Trust the Science,” Trust Science While You Hone Your Critical Thinking Skills
What do we mean, “the” science?
Read more...Devastating Lawsuit Targets Bank of America, Credit Suisse, and Bayer Board Members and Executives Over Disastrous Monsanto Acquisition
Is the shortest road to cleaning up bad corporate governance in the EU through New York courts? Bayer is one of a set of test cases.
Read more...Another COVID Mystery: Patients Survive Ventilator, But Linger in a Coma
Another way Covid-19 can mess up people who survive the disease: protracted comas
Read more...Cloth Masks Do Protect the Wearer – Breathing in Less Coronavirus Means You Get Less Sick
More evidence in support of masks.
Read more...Preparing for the COVID-19 Third Wave: The Case for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a promising Covid-19 treatment that is being ignored.
Read more...Scientists Seek to Collect Ice Core Samples Before Glaciers and Ice Sheets Melt
Ancient ice tells the secrets of the past, but it’s melting as the world warms.
Read more...Universal Testing: An Overlooked Covid-19 Policy Response
Why universal testing + isolation is the best way to tame Covid-19 at the lowest economic/societal cost.
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