by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 3, 2020 | Right Wing Lunacy, Science, Science Denial, Vaccination
We wondered: Could the inability of anti-vaxxers to accurately appraise their own knowledge and skills compared to those of medical experts play a role in shaping their attitudes about vaccines? This inability to accurately appraise one’s own knowledge is called the...
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 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 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 | Apr 28, 2020 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Science Denial
Michael Mann, a climate scientist and signatory to Fox’s letter, said the film includes “various distortions, half-truths and lies” and that the filmmakers “have done a grave disservice to us and the planet by promoting climate change inactivist tropes and talking...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 13, 2020 | Coronavirus, Mathmatics, Science
A Comic Strip Tour Of The Wild World Of Pandemic Modeling Visit the post for...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 13, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Science, Science Based Medicine
A Stupidity Pandemic | NeuroLogica Blog As a skeptical science communicator I am constantly walking the line between hope and cynicism. On the one hand, I very much take to heart Carl Sagan’s approach to science – focusing on the absolute wonder of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Reason & Rational Thinking, Science, Science Based Medicine
A great explanation of the rational thinking and reasoning processes that scientists and medical professional are using in considering Hydroxychloroquine to treat...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, Pseudoscience, Science
Where did the idea that the Coivd-19 Coronavirus crisis was created by the proliferation of 5G? I don’t know but I have to dig into that conspiracy theory. The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t How one scientist and his inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears...
