Steven Pinker And WaPo Are Wrong. Belief In Heaven Isn’t A COVID Death Wish
We are all too familiar with the hackneyed charge that thoughts of heaven are delusional. But according to Steven Pinker, they’re malignantly so. That’s a new twist.
If Democrats Really Followed ‘The Science,’ They’d Ban Abortion
Pritzker touts ‘science and data’ as our way out of this crisis, but he is complicit in ending more lives than the novel coronavirus ever will.
How Blind Faith In Scientific Expertise Wrecked The Economy
One British scientist, a severely flawed model, and a thousand braying imbeciles on social media ordering everyone to ‘have faith in science’ led to the next economic crisis.
Trump Needs To Recruit A Medical ‘Red Team’ To Challenge Lockdown-Manic Governors
President Trump and governors’ coronavirus policy has remained captive to a singular, and quite possibly scientifically flawed, understanding of the epidemic.
Why Science Is A False God That Will Sorely Disappoint You
Science is worshiped by a religious fundamentalism that, contrary to evidence, believes it will guide us into all truth. This is an objectively irrational, unproven and unprovable belief.
Why More Testing Won’t Solve The COVID-19 Crisis
Inherent limitations of the tests we currently have make it unlikely that applying testing to the entire population is going to be very useful.
Why Banning Doctors With Different Ideas From YouTube Is Bad For Public Health
Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi questioned the conventional wisdom about the coronavirus, and YouTube deplatformed them. Banning new ideas is dangerous to medicine, which requires experimentation.
As Long As Vaccines Are Tied To Abortion, Christians Need Exemptions
Promoting public health through vaccines seems like the right thing to do, but there’s a good reason to preserve religious exemptions: Some vaccines rely on cell lines from aborted fetal tissue.
Why China Shouldn’t Shut Down All Its Wet Markets
The Chinese government should ban the sale of wild animals and refrain from using traditional Chinese medicine to advance Beijing’s political objectives. But that’s not all wet markets are.
Why No COVID-19 Models Have Been Accurate, And How To Fix That
The decisions that are being made during this crisis are far too important and complex to be based on such imprecise data and with such unreliable results.
All The Puzzles Flying To People’s Doors Are Bringing Joy And Sharpening Wits
The jigsaw craze may not outlast the pandemic, but given what puzzles contribute to our mental abilities and understanding of humankind, let’s hope it does.
New York Times Ignores The Evidence To Slander Christians As Coronavirus Deniers
Katherine Stewart couldn’t be bothered to find out, as a good journalist would, what the Cornwall Alliance or plenty of other conservative, evangelical Christians think about the coronavirus. Slander sufficed.
Why We Shouldn’t Count On Coronavirus Weakening By Mutation Just Yet
Even if a mutation produced a COVID-19 strain that was more uniformly like the common cold, it is not obvious that it would successfully displace the current strain.
Infectious Disease Experts: To Beat Coronavirus, Consider Voluntary Infection Of Healthy People
‘It might even be curiously safer for some to join the study than to await probable infection and then try to rely on the general health-care system,’ said Nir Eyal, director of the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers University.
It’s Time For Us All To Get A Little More Humility And Wonder About Coronavirus
The arrogant attitude that we or they own the answer and that anyone suggesting alternative responses to the coronavirus must be acting from stupidity, malice, or greed must stop.
The Wall Street Journal Should Publish Better Data About Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases
It is true that there are asymptomatic cases not being counted, and we need better testing and studies to refine our data. But this Wall Street Journal article is speculative.
How Grandmother’s Gargling Remedy Could Help Abate The Coronavirus
Theoretically, the remedy your grandma gave you when you had a sore throat could be used as a proactive step to help kill Covid-19.
Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised Lockdowns
How a handful of Democratic activists created alarming, but bogus data sets to scare local and state officials into making rash, economy-killing mandates.
We Need Better Data Before Trusting Most Things Anyone Says About Wuhan Virus
Many of the claims being made about how the Wuhan virus is the plague for our times are founded on remarkably weak data sets that are intentionally manipulated to foment fear.
The United States Needs Better Data Immediately Before We Make Stupid Decisions About Coronavirus
The lack of data is not necessary. It is a matter of prioritizing data collection, being willing to share data, and then doing the right kind of analytical modelling.
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