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How to Think about COVID-19 like an M.D.

Share this on WhatsApp Students studying to become physicians were sent home as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened. Just as many of them were about to begin new medical careers, they found themselves on the sidelines during the most significant health crisis in their lifetime. That time off has not been passed binge-watching Tiger King, however. […]

The Truth about Scientific Models

Share this on WhatsApp As COVID-19 claims more victims, scientific models make headlines. We need these models to make informed decisions. But how can we tell whether a model can be trusted? The philosophy of science, it seems, has become a matter of life or death. Whether we are talking about traffic noise from a […]

Stopping Deforestation Can Prevent Pandemics

Share this on WhatsApp SARS, Ebola and now SARS-CoV-2: all three of these highly infectious viruses have caused global panic since 2002—and all three of them jumped to humans from wild animals that live in dense tropical forests. Three quarters of the emerging pathogens that infect humans leaped from animals, many of them creatures in […]