Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
The same for 2020/2021’s Covid-19 disease models: For decades, climate change researchers and activists have used dramatic forecasts to attempt to influence public perception of the problem and as a…
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We need a plan to unwind the fear, the panic and the hysteria. We have no plan while epiastrologists feed us a daily diet of ever more scary scenarios. The…
In my state, as previously noted, as deaths increased the state got further behind. The effect was to time shift “reports of deaths” from the past into the future. On…
I saw this on social media. It dates back at least to April of 2020 but is just as relevant now.
I’m so old, I remember a year ago when global supply chains were the future. During the pandemic, the U.S. couldn’t import enough gloves. Recently, car makers ran out of…
Good grief. Public health communications has been a bonfire of idiocy since day #1: Recent public messaging harps on the idea that people can still become infected and transmit COVID-19…
Early damage and “shake” reports help seismologists quickly understand the quake’s impact. But the loss of communications typical after a major quake has created a “donut hole” of missing information.…
More cracks forming in the epidemiological firewall of terror. Today, a major newspaper runs this lengthy article using the “surge” word five times – but never once makes the claim…
Joint statement of the US FDA and USDA: there is no credible evidence of food or food packaging associated with or as a likely source of viral transmission of severe…