Category Archives: Science and the scientific method

Could Religious Exemptions Trump a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate? Well, That Depends

How far could US authorities readily go in implemeting a vaccine requirement?

Don’t “Trust the Science,” Trust Science While You Hone Your Critical Thinking Skills

What do we mean, “the” science?

Devastating Lawsuit Targets Bank of America, Credit Suisse, and Bayer Board Members and Executives Over Disastrous Monsanto Acquisition

Is the shortest road to cleaning up bad corporate governance in the EU through New York courts? Bayer is one of a set of test cases.

Another COVID Mystery: Patients Survive Ventilator, But Linger in a Coma

Another way Covid-19 can mess up people who survive the disease: protracted comas

Cloth Masks Do Protect the Wearer – Breathing in Less Coronavirus Means You Get Less Sick

More evidence in support of masks.

Preparing for the COVID-19 Third Wave: The Case for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a promising Covid-19 treatment that is being ignored.

Scientists Seek to Collect Ice Core Samples Before Glaciers and Ice Sheets Melt

Ancient ice tells the secrets of the past, but it’s melting as the world warms.

Universal Testing: An Overlooked Covid-19 Policy Response

Why universal testing + isolation is the best way to tame Covid-19 at the lowest economic/societal cost.

Vaccine Research on Covid-19: An Update

A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.

Public Health Experts Fear a Hasty FDA Signoff on Vaccine

Experts have the willies about the rush to get a Covid-19 vaccine approved.

Covid-19: To Clean or Not to Clean?

Cleaning vigilance was an early Covid-19 precaution. Have we gone overboard?

Random Testing in Indiana Shows COVID-19 is 6 Times Deadlier Than Flu, and 2.8% of the State Has Been Infected

Sobering data from the first random statewide Covid-19 survey.

COVID-19 Mistakes to Avoid: Don’t Conflate Contact Tracing with Contact Tracing By App

Big Tech and Big Pharma each has a dog in the COVID-19 fight and wish to replace what has worked before and is working now with technofixes.

Federal Judge Nixes Part of Glyphosate Settlement That Would Allow a Panel of Scientific “Experts”, Rather Than Juries, to Decide Whether the Chemical is Carcinogenic for Future Claims

Judge skeptical over Bayer’s proposal to replace a jury decision on whether glyphosate causes cancer with that of a scientific panel.