Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Pandemic London – and the Future of Publishing?
Robert Dingwall discusses the book Breakable, which details the experiences of Sue Julians and her family in lockdown London
Can We Trust the World Health Organization with So Much Power?
Robert Dingwall argues that the World health Organization has become a top-down, command-and-control approach, based on a narrow scientific base and the preferences, or prejudices, of a few major donors, that has failed to deliver in times of crisis.
Face Mask Evangelism, Trust and Democracy
The Great Mask Debate is limping towards closure. While there is no single conclusive piece of evidence, the best research points towards […]
Did Customer-Salesperson Interactions Change During COVID?
During the pandemic, sales manager Claire Cardy noticed that the dynamics of customer-salesperson interactions had somehow changed. Cardy decided to explore what was happening and why.
Face Masks and COVID – A Failed Technology
A model is only as good as its underlying simplifying assumptions and data, notes Robert Dingwall, and in the case of testing the effectiveness of face masks to combat the spread of COVID those data are, he argues, at best fragile.
Face Masks for COVID: An Obituary?
While the full story will probably have to await the attention of historians, writes Robert Dingwall, but anyone who criticized masking was labeled as a peddler of disinformation.
Orientalism and the Advocacy of Face Masks
A concern for Orientalist thinking should lead us to ask what British and American elites are doing with their representation of this imagined “Asia.”
The Covid Pandemic in France: A Review
Henri Bergeron et al. Covid-19: Une Crise Organisationelle Sciences Po: Les Presses, 2020. 9782724626650Jean-Paul Gaudillière et al Pandémopolitiqiue La Découverte, 2021. 9782348066153 […]
