Social Science Space

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.

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.

A concern for Orientalist thinking should lead us to ask what British and American elites are doing with their representation of this imagined “Asia.”

Another day, another report revealing the damage from COVID policies to children and their development. A BBC study has found […]

Robert Dingwall asks if claims about the effectiveness of face masks in stopping COVID consistent with current standards of research integrity.

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.

Are masks for preventing the spread of COVID really just a muzzle. Roberto Strongman argues that here using the visage of Escrava Anastácia to make his case.

A troubling turn in the public policy management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increasing tendency to justify interventions […]