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Critical Thinking isn't Just a Process
Authoritarian muscle memory and the twists and turns of lying
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The Gaslighting of Science
Final Installment of the Misinformation Trifecta
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Novelty Means Severity: The Key To the Pandemic
Nothing in a pandemic makes sense except in the light of novelty: A guest essay.
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How Polarization Ate Our Brains
Part One Of The Misinformation Trifecta
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The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics
It's written/print culture that's the recent historical anomaly, and still a minority of the world
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Why You Should Take Any Vaccine
Soon May the Vaccine Come...
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We Need To Get Real About How the Pandemic Will End
Even more transmissible new variants means that more people will get infected or vaccinated, and that's how it will all end
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Long Covid, The Long History Version
It's the tip of a long-term scandal in how we approach complex chronic conditions and post-viral syndromes
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Vaccine Efficacy, Statistical Power and Mental Models
The Immune System is Not a Sea Wall With a Fixed Height
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Convergent Evidence, Omicron Edition. Open Thread 26/12/2021
Why I believe many of the worst-case scenarios are now off the table
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Omicron Edition, Open Thread 11/28/21
Uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty
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Long Covid: How Bungle Reporting on a Thorny Topic
A lesson in moral panics doing a disservice to all
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