What is with all the beach shaming?
The latest bit of COVID-19 misinformation appears to be the media indulging in what is best described as beach shaming. It’s not high risk.
Medicine
Survey: Religious exemptions for COVID-19 regulations
A recent Pew survey reveals that the vast majority oppose religious exemptions to COVID-19 regulations that are there to protect us all.
Law: Prayer is no substitute for medical care
The supreme court in Alaska has confirmed that a caregiver can’t refuse proper medical care for somebody else and replace medicine with prayer
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.
Hostility to Face Masks – Lessons From 1918
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?
Survey: Nearly one in six Britons would refuse Covid-19 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?