Last year I wrote that a day may come, when we have evidence about masks that’s so strong, so convincing, only the…
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Bias What a New Review Reveals About the Mask Effectiveness Debate
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Health 4 Ways This Tweet Shows How Public Health Messaging Can Go Off the Rails
When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…
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Bias This “Waning Immunity” Argument Against the FDA’s Covid Vaccine Approval Is a Scientific Quagmire
I sure don’t envy the people under all that pressure at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. They’ve been at the brunt…
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Evidence Systematic Evidence and the Covid-19 Stress Test: Pass Or Fail?
You would think a time when we needed to be able to “follow the science” would have been systematic evidence’s shining hour…
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Evidence A Reader’s Guide to Safety & Adverse Event Data From Vaccine Trials
The competition for the “honor” of being the most confusing part of clinical trial results is fierce. I don’t think technical terms…
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Covid-19 Phase 3 Results in Sight for Some, While One Vaccine is Put on Hold: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 9
We’re now into the ninth month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. And this is the…
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Covid-19 The FDA’s Epic Statistical Fail & Worse: Has Informed Consent Been Made Next To Impossible?
Enthusiasm for an experimental intervention often gets the better of doctors’ critical thinking. I think that happened with the advocates for Covid-19…
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Covid-19 Vaccine Contrasts & Massive Volunteer Mobilization: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 8
We’re now into the eighth month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. And this is the…
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Covid-19 The Clinical Trial Results Stampede Begins: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 7
We’re now into the seventh month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. This is the second…
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Covid-19 Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 6: First Emergency Use & Phase 3 Trials
We’re now into the sixth month since the genome of the new coronavirus was sequenced. Twelve to 18 months is the soonest…
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Covid-19 The Limits of Those Reviews of Masks For All and What We Do Know
Have you noticed that you see so many pictures of people wearing face masks during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, but you don’t…
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Covid-19 First in Human: Covid-19 Vaccines & Tales of Phase 1 Clinical Trials Past
The people who sign up for the first-in-human trials of Covid-19 vaccines are about to do our societies an extraordinary service. Most…