Katherine J. Wu, Ed Yong, and Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on how our response to Omicron to date represents all of our past mistakes on fa...

Ed Yong, the best science journalist of this pandemic, in the Atlantic, discusses Omicron and how we're definitely not ready for it . It...

Steven Novella, in Science Based Medicine, on why we cannot and should not withhold medical care from the unvaccinated.  Sarah Zhang, in The...

By Soupvector - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112983798 Sirin Kale, in The Guardian, with the life...

Before you read any further know that I'm NOT a surgeon. I think it could be fairly argued that as far as surgical impact and benefits g...

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with everything you really should know about the various modalities of COVID testing. Ed Yong, also in The...

Joining an ever increasing cavalcade of studies of different diets that demonstrate they all work as well or as poorly as one another comes ...

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, covers the devastating impact managing patients with COVID has had on the world's health-care workers many of ...

Where to start with this? First off there are more than 2 types of diabetes (I mean even the tweet lists 3), but really, recognizing World D...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his substack, on the damage Aaron Rodgers has wrought on professional sports as a whole.  Arthur Shaffer, interviewe...

[First written blog post since March 2020. What an awful 20 months. Though the pandemic is certainly not over yet, it feels like it's ti...

Justin Ling, in Macleans, on the persistence of hygiene theatre Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on how we've lost the plot on COVID. Andre...

James Heathers, in The Atlantic, on how the house of cards upon which ivermectin studies were built likely underpins much of science.  Kathe...

Eva Wiseman, in The Guardian, on the overlap between wellness/spirituality and conspiracy theories. Stephanie Lee, in Buzzfeed, on how the w...

Arthur Caplan, in The Cancer Letter, on how Nazi analogies (and more specifically Vinay Prasad's) regarding COVID are imbecilic, ignoran...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on his own substack Kareem.Substack.com with two stories about vaccination and the NBA. The first on why LeBron is wrong...

Joe Vipond, Kashif Pirzada, and Danielle Cane, in The Toronto Star, on how Canada's culture of silence around airborne transmission has ...

James Heathers, with a rare must read recommendation, in Medium, on how our biggest failing of the pandemic has been keeping it invisible.  ...

Meredith Wadman, in Science, explains what VAERS derived data is, why anti-vaxxers love it, and why it's wrong to use it as a dataset.  ...

Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on putting an end to all respiratory viruses (not just COVID) Vishal Khetpal, in Slate, on the collapse of the...