On behalf of environmentalists, I apologise for Michael Shellenberger
3rd July 2020
…Rupert Read with a tongue-in-cheek yet serious pastiche on Michael Shellenberger’s recent hyped ‘apology’...
3rd July 2020
…Rupert Read with a tongue-in-cheek yet serious pastiche on Michael Shellenberger’s recent hyped ‘apology’...
2nd June 2020
Of relevance to all, but especially to those in the BAME community in northern hemispheres.
This note concerns how we should think precautionarily about Vitamin D as a possible way to help prevent the coronavirus.
2nd June 2020
Evidence is accumulating that there is a significant link between low levels of the vitamin and higher mortality rates — although most agree it is too early to categorically say one way or the other and more work is needed. One piece of this evidence was very suggestive data from Italy showing extreme Vitamin D deficiency in most of those in a set of Covid-19 post-mortems.
28th April 2020
Speaking on BBC Question Time on 26 March 2020, Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal, described the government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic as “a national scandal”. A look through the key moments in the crisis explains why.
3rd April 2020
Models have been bandied about in the UK which have cost lives, in recent weeks. Reliance on models always carries with it that kind of — deadly — risk.
24th March 2020
It is because of pressure from experts and citizens, and because of citizens moving way ahead of Government in implementing physical-distancing measures from the bottom up, that the Johnson Government has finally moved, and that Covid-19 might be starting to be brought under control in the UK. This article explores these vital points, as we move into a three-week ‘lockdown’ period.
24th March 2020
So the UK Government has at last imposed a lockdown. Sigh of relief all round. Better late than never.
11th March 2020
It is hard for humans to imagine things radically outside their own experience.
As there has never been a major worldwide pandemic in this age of globalisation, contemplating that tens — or possibly even hundreds — of millions of people may be about to die is simply not within the realms of things most of us are willing to consider.
11th March 2020
It is hard for humans to imagine things radically outside their own experience.
As there has never been a major worldwide pandemic in this age of globalisation, contemplating that tens — or possibly even hundreds — of millions of people may be about to die is simply not within the realms of things most of us are willing to consider.
7th March 2020
Executive summary