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Written by: The Conversation
May 18, 2020
The line of people who, desperately seeking real cures, have found fakes is quite long.
Written by: The Conversation
May 18, 2020
Fake and bogus cure claims are a longstanding but neglected public health problem.
Written by: The Conversation
May 16, 2020
Universal mask-wearing could be one of the most important tools in tackling the spread of COVID-19.
Written by: The Conversation
May 16, 2020
There are seven distinctive traits of conspiratorial thinking. “Plandemic” offers textbook examp ...
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May 15, 2020
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Twitter account released a number of “infographics” which are, ...
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May 15, 2020
In the absence of nationwide coordination and leadership, governors have made their own decision ...
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May 14, 2020
A policy as stringent as a lockdown has far-reaching implications that extend well beyond the in ...
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May 13, 2020
The ideal vaccine should protect everyone and cause lifelong defenses with a single dose.
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May 11, 2020
Something like trash-talking is happening in the race for a treatment for COVID-19, but no fair ...
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May 11, 2020
Entomologist Akito Kawahara explains why headlines referring to “murder hornets” are misleading.
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May 10, 2020
The killing of Arbery by people with links to law enforcement raises important questions over wh ...
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May 9, 2020
The presence of viral RNA in the patients’ semen does not necessarily indicate the presence of i ...
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May 7, 2020
A recent paper that examined smoking rates among COVID-19 patients in a French hospital hypothes ...
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May 6, 2020
Donald Trump may be “very confident” we will have a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year, ...
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May 6, 2020
It’s surprisingly hard to determine how accurate a coronavirus test is, identify the cause of an ...
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May 4, 2020
If most of these individuals forego receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, they could potentially jeopard ...
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May 1, 2020
The “anti-lockdown” and #Reopen protests in the U.S. have powerful and secretive backers, but re ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
April 30, 2020
A provocative photo of a purported female volunteer of the Irish Republican Army surfaced on the ...
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April 29, 2020
Deliberately licking and coughing on things during a pandemic spreads fear and disgust, along wi ...
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April 29, 2020
While not all far-right groups agree on everything, many of them now subscribe to the idea that ...
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