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 […]
New data from the WHO show that during the pandemic’s first two years, Sweden had half the excess death rate of the UK, Germany or Spain – and a quarter of the excess death rate of many countries in Eastern Europe.
As we pass two years from the beginnings of the pandemic, many commentators are scrambling to distance themselves from their initial responses, […]
By popular request, I am posting this as a free-access version of one of the first commentary pieces that I wrote for […]
The authors saw a need to summarize and synthesize a broad swath of literature on how exogenous crises including but not limited to COVID-19 impact upon business and society.
A year ago, we in the UK were approaching Christmas and New Year with quiet optimism as the first COVID vaccines rolled […]
Robert Dingwall asks if claims about the effectiveness of face masks in stopping COVID consistent with current standards of research integrity.
Everyone – from ordinary citizens to journalists reporting on big issues and researchers trying to communicate their findings – should accept that science changes, and behave accordingly
Anything may be justified in the name of biosecurity, suggests an alarmed Robert Dingwall. This emotional manipulation spills into the wider worlds of politics, science and, indeed, sociology.