New Flu? Coronavirus Might Become Cause Of A Seasonal Illness
The flu kills over 600,000 people each year and in 2020 another virus exploded in public health circles for the third time in 17 years; coronavirus.SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19 disease, has killed nearly 400,000, and given the risk factors it is hard to say how many would have been killed by any respiratory disease, but one question is not philosophical: is this the new normal?
Extinction: Maybe Cro-Magnon Wiped Out Neanderthals After All
Why is Homo neanderthalensis gone while Homo sapiens have bent the world to our will?In recent years, there has been speculation that climate change wiped out Neanderthal people, or interbreeding with us, since many of us have DNA shared by Neanderthals (we also share 60 percent of our DNA with a banana) but a new paper affirms the earliest belief about survival of the fitter, commonly called survival of the fittest; competition between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal. And Neanderthals lost.
The Army Corps Of Engineers Wanted To Prevent Hurricane Katrina Devastation, Environmentalists Sued, Now They ‘re Doing It Again
Conservation groups have frequently sued the U.S Army Corps of Engineers claiming that government scientists do not "properly" evaluate the environmental impacts of its plans to mitigate flood risk.Epidemiologists Link Celiac Disease To Frying Pans And Then We Wonder Why People Don’t Believe In Masks
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, when disease epidemiologists want to be taken seriously by the public, they face an uphill battle. Blocking their progress are epidemiologists who casually link everything to diseases, often using food frequency questionnaires which have no scientific legitimacy.Should Any Current COVID-19 Estimates Be Used To Make Policy Decisions?
There is a popular saying in statistics - "Everyone believes the data except the collector. No one believes the model except the modeler."An Argument To Force China To Pay Coronavirus Reparations
When President Trump said he was going to restrict travel from China earlier this year due to coronavirus, I didn’t engage in the reflexive politics of corporate journalists and call him a racist, I just though it an overreaction. After all, the Whole Health Organisation did not consider it a pandemic and they usually hyperventilate about everything. They had even assured us it could not be transmitted human to human.
Their source for both; the communist party in China.