Debunking Covid & Conspirituality Misinformation

Addressing how the pandemic intersects with issues of social, economic, environmental, racial, gender, and disability justice.

Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants

State differences indicate that techniques may work better in some populations than others.

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US health secretary claims data will be used for research but has not addressed privacy concerns and potential misuse

John Oliver discusses the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s new leadership, the many ways those cuts ...

We spend the hour with acclaimed journalist and author Naomi Klein, whose new book Doppelganger out this week explores what she calls "the mirror world," a g...

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Scientists who have dedicated their careers to studying autism remain highly skeptical that a definitive answer to what causes autism can be reached within a few short months — if at all.

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At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive

Meta rolled back fact checking and content moderation in Q1, and advertisers showed they weren't spooked.

Season 8, Episode 10. May 2nd, 2021. John Oliver explains why some people don’t want to get the Covid-19 vaccine and how they might be reassured, even Mike i...

In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses how misinformation, distrust in science, and extremist rhetoric are fueling a dea...

RFK Jr.’s recent statements about autism are not only inaccurate—they are profoundly dehumanizing. In this letter, I want to address its impact on our community.

Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

COVID-19 vaccine uptake data reported to and by Indigenous Services Canada now excludes uptake in Inuit and territorial communities as data updates from territorial and regional governments have not been publicly available since mid-2022.

Marcia Anderson, the youngest head of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada talks with Dennis Ward about the pandemic.

The BC government has prioritized remote First Nations communities. But a record of health-care racism has left many skeptical.

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the nationwide push to prioritize First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities for the COVID-19 vaccine is starting to bear fruit, and that vaccination rates in those communities are now significantly higher than those reported elsewhere.

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NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.

I've already made two videos about Sabine Hossenfelder's gradual decline into deception and charlatanry, but her behavior has gotten so bad lately that it's ...

Vaccines have been a pretty hot issue for decades now, and increasingly so with the rollout of the new COVID vaccines. But must they be? What do the detracto...

When mRNA vaccines emerged as heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic, headlines heralded them as a revolutionary new technology. Many people wondered: How could a new technology be safe enough to give…

Earlier this year, a study published in Cell, a highly esteemed journal, found that the mRNA genetic material and spike protein persist in the lymph nodes of individuals who got the mRNA vaccine for…

Fox contributor Lisa Booth ranted on Sunday that the United States isn't all that much better than China when it comes to taking away the freedoms of Americans who refuse to be vaccinated. Chinese citizens have been protesting as people continue to be quarantined at home, lacking food and medicine. ...