Covid-19
Why I called for the Brazilian Senate to impeach President Bolsanaro over our Covid crisis
Science-based policies can save us from future pandemics. We won't get them by remaining silent when denialism takes over governments.
Inside the White Rose: The Covid conspiracy graffiti group operating on your doorstep
Throughout the pandemic, the White Rose movement has been growing, plastering towns with Covid conspiracy propaganda stickers
The JAMA ‘child mask’ research is fatally flawed – masks don’t cause “dangerous CO2 levels”
The study’s basic methodological errors, and flawed supplemental literature did not stop pundits from using it to scaremonger about masks
You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders
The pseudoscience and vaccine scaremongering from Drs Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein illustrates the importance of intellectual humility, especially when operating outside your field of knowledge
How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific
Even the most robust arguments of the so-called 'Lockdown Sceptics' rely on quoting selectively from the studies they reference
Brazil’s COVID-19 inquiry puts pseudoscience on trial
The COVID-19 inquiry in Brazil is an opportunity to understand what went wrong and what can be learned - it is one we can't afford to pass up
From chemtrails to COVID-19, Naomi Wolf’s prolific promotion of pseudoscience
Over the years, author Naomi Wolf has spread all manner of misinformation - from misleading statistics to chemtrails and COVID-19 conspiracy theories
Young people in Singapore may be vaccine hesitant, but we’ll get vaccinated to protect others
Listening to the concerns of risk-averse young Singaporeans can help ease hesitancy about the Covid-19 vaccine, and increase eventual take-up