In a post late last year, I used the phrase “contrarian Covid takes”. On Twitter, Lars Henning asked, “what exactly does it…
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Bias Where Is the Line Between Being Critical & Contrarian? Thoughts On a PlagueRead more
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Covid-19 The Evidence On 4th Doses of Covid Vaccines & the Thorny Question of Age ThresholdsRead more
When I last posted on boosters in January, there were at least 14 countries offering fourth vaccine doses. Almost all were only…
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Covid-19 The Race to Reduce Covid-19 Transmission: An Update on 67 Intranasal & 6 Oral VaccinesRead more
It’s a glaring example of a pair of problems that have plagued Covid vaccines: parochialism and failures of information management when science…
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Health 4 Ways This Tweet Shows How Public Health Messaging Can Go Off the RailsRead more
When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…
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Covid-19 Tracking the Covid Vaccine Race in the Wild First 2 Years – A Process StoryRead more
Note: This post is historical. In 2023, I modified my process – details here. By the time the pandemic was declared in…
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Covid-19 Adapting for Variants: Early Results or Trials Underway for 38 Versions of 17 Covid VaccinesRead more
Seventeen vaccines with at least one variant-adapted version sounds like a lot. But none are actually in use yet. And given all…
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Covid-19 The Latest 5 Covid Vaccines to Pass the Phase 3 Results MilestoneRead more
By the middle of last year, 16 Covid vaccines had passed the critical milestone of announcing results from a phase 3 trial…
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Covid-19 New Triumphs & Struggles for Non-Profit Covid VaxesRead more
We don’t know how many groups started out with the goal of creating a patent-free or non-profit Covid vaccine – or at…
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Covid-19 Boosters and Mixed Schedules: Covid Vaccines at the 2-Year MarkRead more
We’ve just passed the second anniversary of the release of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence, which was the starting gun for the Covid…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2021Read more
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…
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Bias Peeling Back the Layers of “Medical Conservativism”Read more
I don’t know when describing yourself as a “medical conservative” became a thing. I only noticed it recently, persistently popping up among…
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Reproducibility The Metascience Movement Needs to be More Self-CriticalRead more
Metascience – the study of science and its improvement – isn’t simply a field of science. There’s a movement, too. What’s more…