coronavirus

Two independent groups have arrived at the conclusion that the COVID-19 lockdown is doing more harm than good. Specifically, the lockdown is taking more life than it's saving. How is it possible to make a determination like that?

A few years ago, I gave a talk at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland titled "Science Communication in an Age of Fake News." The focus of the talk was on revealing the high prevalence of junk science, particularly in the media, and ways in w

There is typically nothing useful or entertaining about epidemiological studies. Not this time.

The mayor of Los Angeles has said that his city will "never be completely open until we have a cure" for the coronavirus.

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been the source of never-ending surprises, all of which have been very bad.

As cities and states across America slowly reopen for business, our leaders claim to be "following the science" as they lift restrictions.

One of the many horrors that drug discovery chemists constantly wrestle with is called pharmacokinetics (PK) – the science of what the body does to a drug (1).

The novel coronavirus, officially dubbed SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes (COVID-19) have continued to surprise all of us. And the surprises have been uniformly negative.

Despite COVID-19 being a public health crisis, we have politicized our understanding of the disease.

Does it make any sense to use an antibiotic like this?