The Psychologisation Pandemic
Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics.
Samuel Kronen
· 18 min read
COVID-19
A collection of 126 posts
The Lab-Leak Illusion
The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
Jamie Palmer
· 53 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
· 12 min read
The Months the Earth Stood Still
Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself?
George Case
· 9 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
· 7 min read
We’re Still Waiting for a Great Post-COVID Pandemic Novel
Fiction writers are used to working in lonely isolation. Maybe that’s why the stories they’ve written about the pandemic seem so out of touch
Neal Pollack
· 16 min read
Shanghai on the Edge of Madness
Starvation will push and pull human psychology in unusual directions—it is one of the few things that can overcome fear of the authorities. When famine came to China 400 years ago, it made Chinese peasants receptive to the preachers of class war. When the government failed to provide crucial
Aaron Sarin
· 6 min read
On DarkHorse, Ivermectin, and Vaccine Hesitancy
The following transcript comes from an interview for Iconoclast: Ideas that have Shaped the Culture Wars. It was conducted by Mark Halloran with Eric Topol on October 14th, 2021. Mark Halloran is Editor of Iconoclast. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and a BA in Behavioural Science. Eric Topol is
Mark Halloran
· 24 min read
The Fight Over What Children Learn
The model of life they imagine is based on the myth of an all-purpose education designed by experts to allow every child to choose any future they like.
Moshe Krakowski
· 7 min read
Outback Australia and the Information Wars
How Maajid Nawaz and Tim Pool amplified misinformation about COVID-19 in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities, overshadowing the effective responses led by legitimate Aboriginal leaders.
Matthew Blackwell
· 14 min read
What is Happening to My Profession?
Some of the people who are refusing the life-saving COVID vaccine are alienated from mainstream institutions, which they view as house organs of the political Left rather than trustworthy arbiters of truth.
Sally Satel
· 10 min read
Vaccine Rejectionism and the Left
The coronavirus pandemic has caused massive backtracking and spin-doctoring among progressive parties over bioengineered vaccines.
Jon Entine
· 17 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 min read
Podcast #166: Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia’s COVID ‘Concentration Camps’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews ABC presenter and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia’s unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country’s quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world.
Quillette
· 1 min read
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
· 6 min read