Whenever applied, the precautionary principle needs to be challenged and stand scrutiny, to help us make decisions when there is uncertainty, and the situation is in flux as is typical in a pandemic.  These alternatives emphasize seeking new facts, being…

There is much to dislike in Spiegelhalter and Masters’ book on the plague year, but considering the partisan and authoritarian nonsense, garbage advice, and terrible statistical blunders we’ve grown used to, the book comes across as fairly balanced. They…

This is the moment in which we find ourselves: a ruling class terrified of being found out, called out, and held accountable, and therefore incentivized to generate an endless series of excuses, scapegoats, and distractions (“You need another shot!”).

Where is Russia going and why has it embraced such dubious, civilization-transforming COVID measures, in near-lockstep with its so-called Western rivals? 

While wearing a mask, I feel anonymous and inhuman. Few people are willing to approach me for conversation, compounding the difficulties I already face due to my disabilities. My disabilities made people nervous about including me in activities because they…

Please let your patrons enjoy what you have to offer without being accosted by senseless Covid restrictions or dystopian hygiene theater.

On social media, the “right answer” is the moralizing one. Vaccines are good. People who don’t get them are bad. We should fire bad people, etc.

What this New York Times editorial tells me is that the ruling class knows that it is on the losing side of history.

It’s time we stop taking opportunities away from kids. Their lives have been wrecked during this pandemic response

Elon Musk has turned into a true American, a resistor, a revolutionary. His influence in business and philosophical outlook offers a real path forward

Japan’s ministry of health: “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory.”

Governments have encouraged and enforced segregation based on vaccine status. This is dangerously inhumane; there's no scientific basis for this

Some claimed that policies for children reflect “following the science.” They do not. There's no science to support primary school closure

As corporate think-tanks and big Pharma take center stage over ruins of Alma Ata, it's time to reconsider blurred lines between power and “altruism.”

History is nothing but what we make of it, and that depends not on mere observation but on what we believe and what we do about what we believe. 

In India, it is even more absurd that almost everything is normal for adults: restaurants, malls, movie theatres, crowded events, crowded buses and trains and flights, etc.; while at the same time schools are not open, and even where open, normal activities…

We should stop using vaccines as a weapon in political and cultural fights. We must care about everyone irrespective of their political views and socio-economic standing.

In India, it is even more absurd that almost everything is normal for adults: restaurants, malls, movie theatres, crowded events, crowded buses and trains and flights, etc.; while at the same time schools are not open, and even where open, normal activities…

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that living in the modern world has left most people, including journalists, politicians, physicians, and even many scientists, with little or no appreciation of how important their relationship with microbes…

Are you as a member of the well-educated Western elite class prepared to explore the possibility that members of the sociological cohort to which you belong are capable of highly organized evil and deception rooted in a deep disdain for the core humanity…

Liberty and justice for all! It’s a good idea. New York City should try it. Maybe it too would experience a Florida-like boom in business and immigration instead of recession and exodus. If this keeps up, the only moving thing in the city will be the newest…