Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
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Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Read more...Further Discussion of the Red Flags in the Pfizer Vaccine Paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
Responding to critics of a post on the Pfizer vaccine paper and editorial.
Read more...More CO2 in the Atmosphere Hurts Key Plants and Crops More Than It Helps
A primer on CO2 and crops.
Read more...An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.
Read more...Jamie Galbraith: How Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers Reinforce a Destructive, Debunked Mainstream Paradigm to Support Deficit Spending
To defend deficits, Furman and Summers relied on debunked theories, thus preserving destructive mainstream economic ideas.
Read more...Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Cheaper than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s and Doesn’t Require Supercold Temperature
Some promising news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Read more...Large UK Study Delivers Big Blow to Covid Herd Immunity Thesis, Raises Concerns About Vaccine Strategies
Confirming a Covid concern.
Read more...Latest Nobel Prize in Chemistry Demonstrates How the US Patent Office Screws Inventors
A high profile example of the train wreck called the US patent process.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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