Tag: medicine
Suicide by Zoom — Technology and Dehumanization
“We are always told that ‘strict guidelines will protect against abuse.’ It’s always been baloney.”
Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine
It’s a particularly crude example of how confirmation bias works — how else would you explain this story? — not only among lay people but among top researchers.
Virology Keeps Evolving
Government actions may be informed to a greater or lesser degree by science. Lesser seems to be the current trend.
Thomas Aquinas Weighs in on the Coronavirus and Public Policy
Scientists should have “stayed in their lane,” giving policymakers the information that science can provide about a potential pandemic, and left the political calculations alone.
Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong
Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology.