Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
By early 2022, about 95% of Americans had contracted COVID despite the harsh countermeasures. A John Hopkins University meta-analysis concluded that lockdowns failed to contain the spread of COVID. At…
When dueling celebrity epidemiologists met social media, a catastrophe occurred: a complete loss of trust in science itself.
These bad think thoughts used to be called conspiracy theories – now they are mainstream Science: * United Nations projections point to the world population peaking at roughly 10.4 billion…
In the first 3 months, Neil Ferguson’s disease model projected: Every item projected by Neil Ferguson’s team was wrong, immensely wrong. Neil Ferguson recommended the UK’s lockdown strategy, but then…
Some Covid restrictions were “idiocy” and lengthy school closures were an “unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief has admitted. Karl Lauterbach, who became the face of the pro-lockdown movement, said some…
Let’s preserve this for posterity. He’s an MD, MPH. Trust the Experts. As usual, the public health experts were wrong. About everything. And they wonder why no one trusts them…
The growth curve of deaths was not far from a steady line, upwards. We did lock downs. We did masks. We closed schools and businesses. We opened schools. We made…
July 2020: There is no question that the Czech Republic’s remarkable progress on COVID-19 was the result of requiring an entire society to wear face masks. Source: How Czech Republic…
Look at this chart from the White House on October 11, 2023: Source: Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency – Los Angeles Times This chart, at right of the…
Intellectual elitism, credentialism, and classism must end. Restoring trust in public health—and our democracy—depends on it. Source: It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID…