It was a big month for clinical trials of next generation Covid vaccines. An exciting phase 1/2 trial in Africa for an…

There are several reasons to buy Helen Pearson’s excellent new book, Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works—whether you want to…

This month intranasal and inhaled versions of a Covid vaccine are heading into a phase 1 trial in the US. The vaccine…

A paper published this month got me frustrated, yet again, about this situation: There really is still too much uncertainty about conflict…

Several next generation Covid vaccines are now advancing into mid- or late-stage trials. So this month, I have started a new section—a…

When I was young, while I understood pandemics that kill millions could happen in theory, I really thought they were a thing…

This month, there are phase 2 results for a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine from Japan—and that vaccine’s developers have recently completed a phase…

When Catharine Deaver Lealtad died at the age of 93, an obituary for her in the New York Times led a listing…

Back in 2019 I wrote a couple of posts summarizing what we had learned from research about peer review at journals. Since…

This month, Arcturus’ self-amplifying mRNA vaccine was approved for use in the UK. There were also new clinical trial results for another…

This month, the first clinical trial for a pancoronavirus formulation of an existing Covid vaccine was registered. Although it’s just on the…

I hadn’t been aware of the term science populism until a video about it did the rounds recently. It was a light-bulb…