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Covid-19 and your business: an open letter

In the past few days, I have received emails from hotel chains, supermarkets, convenience stores, travel brands, and a storage locker company explaining how they’re protecting my health from the...

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Resurrections in Spain!

According to the Worldometer, 1915 people returned from the dead today (May 25, 2020). Specifically, COVID-19 victims. I thought this would be the result of a statistical correction, maybe Spain...

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Retail Unmasked

I wrote this to a particular local store. I’m not going to name-and-shame them, so this is an open letter to many retailers: Hello, I was in your store this morning. Several of your staff were wearing...

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Internet Archive Promotes Woo

I have used and liked the Internet Archive since it was just the Wayback Machine. I have donated money on multiple occasions. And now they’re promoting The Secret. Yes, the infamous peak-nonsense idea...

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This is what evil looks like

A protest forced the temporary closure of a COVID-19 vaccination site in Los Angeles. They’re literally willing to kill people for the fiction that COVID-19 doesn’t exist....

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Terrifyingly transmissible variants?

So, we hear a lot about how the VOC 202012/01 variant (the “British variant”) and 501Y.V2 (the “South African variant”) are more transmissible than the baseline SARS-CoV-2 virus, and there is evidence...

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Conspiracy theorizing: killing people again

Wisconsin pharmacist who destroyed more than 500 vaccine doses believes Earth is flat, FBI says. Pharmacist Steven Brandenberg deliberately ruined over 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, by leaving it out...

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Kaiser doctor: Cause, Effect, What’s the Difference?

A press release on the Kaiser Permanente web site showcases Doctor Robert Sallis, who conducted a study in which the data on 50,000 KP members diagnosed with COVID-19, finding that people who were...

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Human beings are not the same thing as monkey cells: no, don’t start taking...

Audacy (a site for radio stations’ online presence) reports, “Cholesterol drug cuts COVID infection rate by 70%: study”. Actually, no, that is not what’s reported. 70% reduction in infection would be...

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Notes for Philcon “Recent Science Headlines” panel

Links for various topics I prepared for the panel https://www.popsci.com/environment/cop26-final-agreement-climate-change/ COP26 Phase down (not phase out) of fossil fuels including coal – thanks,...

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