Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
CDC announced today that fully vaccinated individuals no longer need to wear face masks when on Zoom teleconference calls, and no longer need to wear their face mask for social…
Presumably the authors of this study will agree to demonstrate “degrowth” by cutting their own salaries, their departments and their university budgets. They can go first, right? “We can still…
Redfield first said this in mid-July 2020. Redfield said if Americans wore face masks for several weeks, “we would bring this pandemic under control,” because there is scientific evidence they…
Apparently, it’s time for increased ventilation and actual N95 masks then? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is finally acknowledging something that health experts have been saying for a…
“Our demographers anticipate we will return to slightly positive growth 12 months from now as the pandemic is brought under control and we see changes to immigration policy,” he said.…
History will not look kindly on what the experts just did. Unfortunately, it will take a different set of experts to critically analyze this as too many leading experts may…
It is 14 weeks, as of today. Cases have fallen off a cliff since Osterholm not only made his projection, but spread it widely via television and mass media outlets.…
Erin Kennedy, a.k.a. RobotGrrl, gives this TedXOttawa talk. Interesting approach to applying robotics and other ideas to simple environmental cleanups. I met Erin at SF Bay Area Maker Faire in…
The CDC does not have authority to regulate housing: A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a national eviction moratorium, saying the Covid-19 pandemic-relief measure exceeded the powers of the…
March 16, 2021 CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said she was “pleading” with Americans to take precautions, such as wearing masks. Source: CDC’s Walensky warns of COVID-19 surge around spring break…