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COVID-19, a “Cure”, and Religion in Afghanistan

August 20, 2020 by Dave
Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, religious herbalists are offering a COVID-19 cure that uses opioids. People really do feel better, but this is not a cure.

Categories consumer, Fake News, Health, Medicine, society Tags Afghanistan, COVID-19, cure Leave a comment

How the Pandemic Defeated America

August 13, 2024August 4, 2020 by Dave
Pandemic

It didn’t have to be like this. 150,000+ people did not need to die. This pain and turmoil was preventable at a thousand different turns.

Categories Health, media, science Tags COVID-19, ed young, health, media, Pandemic, writing Leave a comment

Science Journal Retracts Rat Penis Enlargement Paper for Promoting Homeopathy

April 15, 2024July 17, 2020 by Dave
Science Journal Retracts Rat Penis Enlargement Paper for Promoting Homeopathy

Science Journal Retracts Rat Penis Enlargement Paper for Promoting Homeopathy. Researchers had hidden the fact that it was Homeopathy.

Categories Health, Homeopathy, Humor, Medicine, science, Skepticism, study Tags enlargement, homeopathy, Impaza, penis, Retraction Leave a comment

Hostility to Face Masks – Lessons From 1918

December 23, 2023July 15, 2020 by Dave
face masks

During the 1918 flu crises face masks were deployed and then resisted by some who refused to comply. What lessons can we learn from that?

Categories consumer, Crisis, Health, Medicine, society Tags 1918, face masks, masks Leave a comment

Survey: Nearly one in six Britons would refuse Covid-19 vaccine

May 21, 2022July 8, 2020 by Dave
vaccine

The anti-vaccine movement is already rejecting a COVID-19 vaccine that does not exist. Is attacking social media the best response for this?

Categories consumer, Health, media, Medicine, poll, Skepticism, society Tags CCDH, COVID-19, social media, vaccine Leave a comment

COVID-19 : The Dexamethasone saga

July 9, 2020June 18, 2020 by Dave

The steroid Dexamethasone has been hailed as a new wonder drug for tackling COVID-19. Things are not quite as presented to us.

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