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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.
The Great Mask Debate is limping towards closure. While there is no single conclusive piece of evidence, the best research […]
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.”
Henri Bergeron et al. Covid-19: Une Crise Organisationelle Sciences Po: Les Presses, 2020. 9782724626650Jean-Paul Gaudillière et al Pandémopolitiqiue La Découverte, […]
Research is highly difficult during global crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, but at the same time essential, […]
