The Left’s Covid Memory Hole - WSJ
#U.S.A. #Health #TrumpLast week’s Democratic convention sought to make four points: Joe Biden is a decent man, Donald Trump is horrible, the president bungled the pandemic and Mr. Biden would have handled it better because he grasped the threat from the start.…
Rassismus: Wie geht das, diskriminierungsfrei reden? Ein Versuch
#Racism #Switzerland #Gender_Kürzlich bin ich auf die Zukunft des Journalismus gestossen. Sie versteckt sich in einer Fussnote. Und sie ist nicht erfreulich.…
The Next Pandemic: Trump Derangement Syndrome - WSJ
#Politics #U.S.A. #TrumpIt’s been going around for some time and now appears to be in danger of spreading widely. I refer not to Covid-19, but to Donald-20, or, to use its pseudoscientific name, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Research has shown that TDS appears in five stages, each of advanced intensity.…
The White House Spins Trump's Disinfectant Remarks - FactCheck.org
#Science #U.S.A. #TrumpAt an April 23 press briefing, President Donald Trump mused about the possibility of using “very powerful light” and injecting disinfectant into the body to kill COVID-19 – a suggestion that, in the case of disinfectant, was roundly criticized by experts as dangerous.…
An Experimental Ultraviolet Light Treatment for Covid-19 Takes Political Heat - WSJ
#Science #U.S.A. #TrumpI ran an obscure pharmaceutical company until a few days ago. Then we got famous. Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, ) made a commitment to find ways to help.…
The Treatment That Could Crush Covid - WSJ
#Science #U.S.A. #HealthMore than 500 clinical trials are under way world-wide in the race to find an effective treatment for Covid-19. Everybody wants it; nobody has it—yet.…
‘Covid Powers’ Wreck My Neighborhood - WSJ
#Politics #Crime #U.S.A.For many years I’ve lived in paradise—the Upper West Side. We have convivial neighbors, beautiful buildings, great subways, excellent theater and dance, fine libraries and bookstores, wonderful restaurants, pleasant markets. There were problems but we worked them out amicably.…
University Appeal Upheld, Peter Ridd Loses - We all Lose - Jennifer Marohasy
#Science #Global Warming #AustraliaOn 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when he called-out his colleague Terry Hughes for falsely claiming healthy inshore coral reefs were dead from climate change and deteriorating water quality.…
The Ideological Corruption of Science - WSJ
#Politics #Racism #ScienceIn the 1980s, when I was a young professor of physics and astronomy at Yale, deconstructionism was in vogue in the English Department.…