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“In the war against COVID-19, truth is the first casualty. And the second, is trust” -Me (probably) Organized protests against the COVID-19 lockdowns began in Lansing, Michigan on April 16. Protesters in their cars jammed up the streets calling for an end of their state’s restricted stay-at-home order. Similar protests sprang up […]
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -Santayana In an effort to understand COVID-19 many have looked for insights from the 1918 Spanish Flu. Worldwide, between 20 million and as many as 100 million people perished from an unusually deadly strain of influenza virus. In the century […] © Eric Weinstein THE PORTAL It’s both terrifying and comforting to discover the smartest people in the world can be just as confused and puzzled by COVID-19 as me. Even the best-and-brightest rely on “faith” in their pet theories when empirical evidence is unavailable or inconclusive. It’s a comfort (albeit small) to know […] It’s funny how many of us have turned into amateur epidemiologists, virologists, and statisticians in this pandemic. But don’t feel bad about being an armchair scientist or in our case, house-arrest scientist (see what I did there?) Evolutionary biologists, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (PhDs in Biology) said during their science podcast, SARS2 is […]
“Let them eat cake.” -Marrie Antoinette (Probably) At the start of the French Revolution, Queen Marrie Antoinette was rumored to have said, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”—“Let them eat cake.” when told that her people had no bread. This tale was ‘fake news’, told as justification for the violent revolution […] |
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