Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Science
Remember all those vaccine-deniers and rightwing wackos who kept asserting that the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin was a miracle cure for COVID-19? You knew all along that was nonsense based simply on the people who were insisting it was true. But now, there’s a...
Nov 8, 2021 | Blog, Science
My wife and I got our third COVID vaccine shots the other day. As with the previous two, we’ve had no problems other than some soreness in our arms around the injection sites. Come to think of it, I can’t remember ever having side effects from any...
Jul 12, 2021 | Blog, Science
A Newsmax host said the other night that while he’s not an “anti-vaxxer,” he feels vaccines “stand in the way” of nature and the “ebb and flow” of diseases killing swaths of people. Okay, fine. Now he should never be allowed to receive medical treatment for anything....
Jul 7, 2021 | Blog, Science
Last month, in a piece entitled “Forget About The Herd,” I wrote: I have sympathy for those who want but haven’t had access to the vaccine for economic or geographic reasons and hope that outreach attempts can meet all of their needs. But that’s not the...
Jun 30, 2021 | Picture of the Day, Science
I have lost track of the number of times I’ve watched SpaceX bring the first stage of one of its reusable rockets back to Earth for a nice, soft, vertical landing. But it still amazes me every time. This one took place just a few hours ago, marking the ninth...