This is the last post in a series highlighting outstanding women in vaccine science or immunology related to vaccine development in the…
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1970s-1990s (Part 3)
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1940s-1960s (Part 2)
This is the second post in a series highlighting outstanding women in vaccine science or immunology related to vaccine development in the…
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1900-1930s (Part 1)
Women scientists have had pivotal and leading roles in developing Covid vaccines and been celebrated for it – from Katalin Karikó’s role…
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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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Bias A Communication Research Unicorn! Decent Evidence You Can Change People’s Minds & Actions Via Social Media
The field of research on communication interventions is heavily littered with studies that are too small, too indirect, and too riddled with…
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Covid-19 A Worrying Drift Towards Exceptionalism In the Covid Vax For Kids Debate
I think we are drifting perilously close to exceptionalism in the debate about the Covid-19 vaccine for children and adolescents. The narrowed…
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Covid-19 A Big Hit, A Big Miss, & Mixed Vaccine Schedules: The 18-Month Mark
Remember when we were told the earliest we could possibly hope for a vaccine was 12 to 18 months? Here we are…
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Bias Peering Through the Smoke at a Duel Over Covid’s Infection Fatality Rate
This is one of my older cartoons. Unfortunately, the problem it’s depicting hasn’t gone out of style. But now it strikes me…
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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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Covid-19 New Vaccine Hopes, Adverse Reactions, & a Developer Clashing With Regulators: A Month of Highs & Lows
We’ve well and truly reached cherry-picking season on Covid vaccine data! It’s definitely easier to fall into the trap of claims based…
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Science Communication A Cartoon Guide to Criticism: Scientist Edition
Science is a profession where critique is integral to the work itself. So you might think we’d all have both criticizing, and…
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Bias The Pioneering Crossover Trials for Covid Vaccines and What We’ll Find Out
As results for the big phase 3 trials for the BNT-Pfizer and Moderna were looming, a debate ramped up: when would the…