Climate, Public health: Eating meat will kill you and the climate
Widely reported junk science nutrition study says we must stop eating red meat to avoid T2D and save the climate.
Public health: Hardly anyone is getting new Covid shots
Public health is not listening - yet the low take up rates for the 2023 Covid vaccine speaks loudly. 7% of adults and 2% of kids have gotten the new…
Follow up: Economic forecast models mostly useless
The New York Times also chimed in on the poor forecasting record of economists Monday in a separate story, “New Normal or No Normal? How Economists Got It Wrong for…
Public health: Most kids’ Covid cases were spread at home
Most kids' Covid cases were spread through in home contact, not through child care and schools.
Public health followup: Covid cases continue to decline
The apocalyptic late summer/early fall Covid-19 triple-demic surge has not happened.
Climate, Health: Global warming to reduce head colds
In what they called a “breakthrough,” scientists uncovered the biological reason we get more respiratory illnesses in winter — the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the…
Follow up: Students isolating with Covid should be last to leave buildings on fire
In Oct 2020, the University of York told students self isolating in case they had Covid that they should delay exiting a building on fire...
Public health, media: Covid-19 booster shots
The media says it is difficult to get a Covid vaccination due to incredible demand. Practicing Factfulness My closest RiteAid store is booked out 2 weeks. The next closest store…
Public health: Another person livid she got Covid
In her tweet, at the end, she has almost figured it out – almost. Factfulness She thought she could do NPIs the rest of her life to avoid Covid. She’s…
Science: Nobel Prize winner was demoted by U of Penn, papers rejected by Nature and Science
Ouch: As Karikó worked for decades toward adapting mRNA to bring out its therapeutic qualities, her efforts were repeatedly dismissed by the university, she has said. When she was unable…