As we reflect on five years since the tumultuous start of the COVID pandemic (even if we just wish to forget it ever happened ...

The Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t just a public health crisis; it was a stress test for science itself. And, as we now know, science failed. The very principles that were supposed to safeguard ...

In the early 1990s, Katalin Karikó was obsessed with an idea most of her fellow scientists dismissed: Could messenger RNA, or ...

Only two days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health's official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news ...

THE WEEK speaks to Dr Pragya Yadav, leading scientist at ICMR's National Institute of Virology, who was leading the early ...

Even scientists involved in the influential 'Proximal ... In China, those attempting to uncover the truth about Covid-19 were reportedly threatened. Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a whistleblower who ...

Vaccines, medications and other biomedical breakthroughs are necessary to eliminate epidemic diseases. But as I explore in my book, Persisting Pandemics, social, economic and political factors are ...