Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it.

Don’t wear a mask; you must wear a mask. Buy a pulse oximeter. Stock up on Tylenol, vitamin D, Pepcid. Whisper so you don’t spit. Stand six feet from others—no, 10. Wear gloves. Wear two masks! Open the windows. Close the schools. The dizzying madness of COVID, and the reliance on gurulike experts, has been eerily familiar.

Casting scientists as polarizing media figures has proved a disservice to both science and the public

A dangerous COVID-era authoritarianism targets the most vulnerable—and threatens the foundation of democratic society

Imperatives like skepticism and disinterestedness are being junked to fuel political warfare that has nothing in common with scientific methodology

The push to decouple skepticism from science turns schoolchildren into victims

It isn’t only about the virus, and will continue even after the lockdowns are lifted

Growing indications that viral enhancement research gone awry is still in play as a possible cause of the pandemic

Inside the CCP’s use of social media bots and other disinformation tactics to promote its own response to the coronavirus pandemic and attack its critics

A startling investigation into how a cheap, well-known drug became a political football in the midst of a pandemic

Dismissing the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a lab in China as ‘a conspiracy theory’ is bad science

The coronavirus has made an unfair class system even more unfair

We don’t know yet. But contrary to recent reporting, science does not rule out a lab accident or even bioterrorism.