Tom Luongo: Politics, Positivism and the Science of Tyranny
This science worship ... absolves people of the responsibility of making the hard decisions."
This science worship ... absolves people of the responsibility of making the hard decisions."
"As the staggering social and economic costs of shutdown have become painfully clear, the failure of the models to accurately anticipate what would happen is raising questions about their use to justify life-altering public policies."
"... you cannot use your talents fully if you are not disciplined."
"For decades, Exley and colleagues have tried to shine a spotlight on the role of aluminum in Alzheimer’s disease in the face of massive industry pushback and denials."
"I am convinced that black elderberry has had a positive impact in my own case, and would strongly back medical science to put this natural remedy to the test."
Women have "an advantage when it comes to susceptibility to viruses".
"The function of journalism is to apply scrutiny and scepticism to the pronouncements of government officials and powerful corporations."
New reports indicate the U.S. government helped fund research in Wuhan that may be linked to COVID-19.
"…all of the vaccinated mice, irrespective of the type of vaccine or the presence or absence of aluminum adjuvant, displayed unique lung damage not seen in the control mice …"
"The levels of radiation observed in most cases ... are unsafe when compared with radiation limits determined by medical bodies."
Theories alleging that 5G is linked to COVID-19 have gone viral, but those claims are not backed by science.
"Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong ... recognize the importance of minimizing all modes of transmission, including droplet and aerosol transmission, where the role of a mask is critical to the protection of the individual."
"COVID-19 starts out in the lungs like the common cold coronaviruses, but then causes havoc with the immune system that can lead to long-term lung damage or death."
"Life is not risk free. We learn to live with risk."
"Synchrotrons use electrons to produce intense beams of light..."
"Globally, there’s just not the capacity in terms of intensive care units."
"The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million sq km (11.7 million sq mi) — enough to fit in the U.S., China, India, Japan, Mexico, and many European nations, combined."
"The novel coronavirus and Sars share the same functional host-cell receptor, called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)."
"At present, British Government policy for reducing the spread of coronavirus is for people who may have come in contact with it to be isolated, mostly in their own homes, for two weeks, the possible incubation period of the virus."
"...in one study, 54 percent were men. Another earlier study of hospitalized patients was made up of 68 percent men..."
"In this stunning visualization, biologist Eleanor Lutz painstakingly mapped out every known object in Earth’s solar system (>10km in diameter)..."
"We have to weigh up the risks for ourselves, including understanding, at present, we have no certain protection from the coronavirus."
"China’s Health Commission...said on Monday that the coronavirus can survive for five days maximum on smooth surfaces under suitable circumstances."
"One journalist tried to get tested, and he was told there are only “100 or several hundred test-kits per hospital per day”… So a lot of sick people in Wuhan may never get tested at all."