A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
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 […]
By popular request, I am posting this as a free-access version of one of the first commentary pieces that I […]
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.
We interviewed two officials at the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery to talk about their thoughts on the importance of the social sciences in government oversight.
The focus of these special inspector general offices is to not only keep a watchful eye on the trillions of dollars flowing from Washington to families and business across the country, but to also prevent and deter people defrauding the federal government and thus the tax-paying American public.
A year ago, we in the UK were approaching Christmas and New Year with quiet optimism as the first COVID […]
Robert Dingwall asks if claims about the effectiveness of face masks in stopping COVID consistent with current standards of research integrity.
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.
“A leading association of bioethicists has come squarely behind the idea of mandated vaccination. A statement issued by the Association […]
The state of the face mask debate is rather as if Galileo had published his account of the heliocentric universe and then included a paragraph at the end telling the reader to ignore all the evidence because the Church had declared that everything revolved around the Earth.
The dust is settling on the UK House of Commons report, produced jointly by its Select Committees on health and […]
