Definition of a cult: A relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members.

Research can act as advocacy, but there's always a line. Don't change your methods to support your advocacy. If you do that, then it's just a commentary with some numbers.

Any chance the issue is that we pushed people harder for covid vaccines than for any other vaccine in recent history? Any chance many folks are just pissed about it?

Always bewildering when you meet someone who wants to be called Dr. but refers to everyone else by their first name.

COVID-Zero was only a viable and sustainable solution on social media given that 99.9% of its prophets and believers were and remain active on these platforms. The coverage in legacy media was driven by a few believers with platforms in well-established newspapers and journals

I think safe to say that any choreographed dance number from people dressed in scrubs has made the average person lose trust in the healthcare establishment.

Tuesday Afternoon Poll Did data aggregators/COVID Trackers help or harm the COVID response? Our World In Data Worldometer JHU COVID Tracker (and many many more)

This is a great example of reporters so focused on attacking Trump that the message that schools should stay closed was seen as an evidenced-based decision when it wasn't. All pandemic preparedness plans said the same thing: schools should have been last to close and first to

Friday Afternoon Poll Would you rather be trolled in a way that you will likely end up seeing it or via screenshot, from behind a block, etc?

At the beginning of covid, I was worried that academics personally attacking other academics with whom they didn't agree would undermine the respect for academia and ultimately the power of evidence in driving policy. But that ship has long since sailed and the respect for

I think some people are going to learn very quickly that there are limits to academic freedom.

I have an admission that explains most of my perspectives towards COVID. On March 12, 2020, we set up an isolation site for people experiencing homelessness as they were not allowed back into their shelters. Anyone who had a pretty broad range of even mild symptoms in the