“The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident.” ― Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies Virologists have been getting things wrong for over a century. In science, getting things wrong comes with the territory and is forgivable. In the 19th century a sailor with scurvy might …
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Virus Mania How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics Making Billion Dollar Profits by Torsten Engelbrecht and Claus Kohnlein With viruses on everyone’s mind and obsessive fear of infection the defining feature of life at the present moment, are there any cures for this corona-phobia? Indeed, there are. Two books in particular, The Contagion Myth …
Kary Mullis was a Nobel prize-winning scientist, a colorful wordsmith, and possibly a bit of a curmudgeon. Mullis: “Sometimes in the morning, when it’s a good surf, I go out there, and I don’t feel like it’s a bad world.” “Science grows like a weed every year.” “I’m really optimistic in the mornings.” The following …
The July 2020 issue of Scientific American magazine has a cover story “Inside The Coronavirus.” The image on the cover shows the coronavirus with spikes sticking out from a circular cross-section that appears to have DNA-like structures in it. It’s a colorful and compelling image. There is only one problem: it’s not an electron micrograph …