by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 1, 2020 | Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Science Based Medicine
In a conversation last weekend I said despite my vaccine advocacy in the case of a vaccine for COVID-19 I said I would not want to be amongst the first to get vaccinated when “they’ come up with a vaccine because of how it is being rushed to market. Thinking about it...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 27, 2020 | Coronavirus, Science, Science Based Medicine
We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus We were wrong. By Ariel Bleicher and Katherine Conrad UCSF Magazine Summer 2020 Illustration: Anna & Elena Balbusso In late January, when hospitals in the United States confirmed the presence of the novel coronavirus,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 25, 2020 | • Politics, Behavior, Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Partisan Idiocy, Pseudoscience, Psychology, Reason & Rational Thinking, Right Wing Lunacy
The 7 traits of conspiratorial thinking Science misinformation and conspiracy theories have surged during coronavirus. This guide can help you identify...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 23, 2020 | Coronavirus, Science
Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all? s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. When 61 people met for a choir practice in a church in Mount Vernon, Washington, on 10 March, everything...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Critical Thinking
We have become a nation of magical thinkers, making decisions based on what we hope is the case and whom we want to believe. When confronted with opposing evidence, we do not engage with it. We dismiss it and stick a label on it: “fake,” “phony,” “biased,” etc. And...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 18, 2020 | Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Science
Trump is on record saying he’s seen evidence virus started in Chinese lab and Pompeo has echoed Trump although when pressed on the question he has indicated he hadn’t seen definitive evidence. The idea that the virus was engineered in a lab by the Chinese...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 13, 2020 | Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Science, Science Based Medicine
He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19. Feature The man behind Trump’s favorite unproven treatment has made a great career assailing orthodoxy. His claim of a 100 percent cure rate shocked scientists around the world. Didier...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 12, 2020 | Coronavirus
Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next. You might feel blindsided by the coronavirus, butwarnings about a looming pandemic have been there for decades. Government briefings, science journals and even popular fiction...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 11, 2020 | Coronavirus
Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body Deborah Coughlin was neither short of breath nor coughing. In those first days after she contracted the novel coronavirus, her fever never spiked above 100 degrees. It was vomiting and diarrhea that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Critical Thinking
If Someone Shares the ‘Plandemic’ Video, How Should You Respond? Whatever camp someone falls in, though, the general principles are the same. “It’s always important to respond in a way that doesn’t suggest that the other [person] is...
