17 julho 2020
Why Science Needs Skeptics
The COVID-19 Panic Shows Us Why Science Needs Skeptics: The dumpster fire of COVID predictions has shown exactly why it’s important to sustain and nurture skeptics, lest we blunder into scientific monoculture and groupthink. And yet the explosion of “cancel culture” intolerance of any opinion that doesn’t fit a shrinking “3 x 5 card” of right-think risks destroying the very tolerance and science that sustains our civilization.
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Why emergency COVID-vaccine approvals pose a dilemma for scientists : After a flurry of positive results from clinical trials of COVID-19 v...
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The Value of a Cure: An Asset Pricing Perspective : We provide an estimate of the value of a cure using the joint behavior of stock prices ...
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The Tricky Math of COVID-19 Herd Immunity : Herd immunity differs from place to place, and many factors influence how it’s calculated.