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"Enough science."

Dec 15, 2020 2 min read

Edit, 6.04 pm, December 15, 2020: A reader pointed out to me that The Guardian may in fact have been joking, and it has been known to be flippant on occasion. If this is really the case, I pronounce m…

A science for the non-1%

Feb 3, 2020 4 min read

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David Michaels, an epidemiologist and a former US assistant secretary of labour for occupational safety and health under Barack Obama, writes in the Boston Review: [Product defence] operations have o…

When deGrasse Tyson pulled a Pinker

Aug 5, 2019 6 min read

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Since this post was published, an upward-edited version has been republished on The Wire. Twitter is, among other things, that place on the internet where people fight over the tips of icebergs. Ther…