Derek Thompson
Weight-loss drugs, malaria vaccines and more: CRISPR innovations headline the science breakthroughs of 2023
CRISPR is the year’s top breakthrough not only because of heroic work done in the past 12 months, but also ...
‘COVID Rashomon’: Fractured response to Omicron surge has spurred some Americans to say they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
The messiness of Omicron data—record-high cases! but much milder illness!—has deepened our COVID Rashomon, in which different communities are telling ...
Viewpoint: Do we still need to wear masks outdoors? Taking face coverings off in restaurants is ‘like watching people put on seatbelts in parked cars, then unbuckling them when they drive’
One systematic overview of COVID-19 case studies concluded that the risk of transmission was 19 times higher indoors than outside ...
Viewpoint: This one man may be responsible for spreading more COVID misinformation than anyone else on TV or social media
Alex Berenson: the former New York Times reporter, Yale-educated novelist, avid tweeter, online essayist, and all-around pandemic gadfly [has] has ...
Republicans, young people and minorities: How to persuade the vaccine hesitant to get a COVID shot
As the United States screams past 500,000 fatalities, the choice between a deadly disease and a shot in the arm ...
Latest partisan flashpoint: Gap between rising confirmed coronavirus infections and relatively flat death rate
President Donald Trump has brushed off the coronavirus surge by emphasizing the lower death rate, saying that “99 percent of ...
Will lab-grown burgers succeed where ethical arguments against meat eating failed?
[O]ne-sixth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are directly attributable to raising livestock, and the figure is rising as more ...
3 explanations for why we haven’t found aliens yet
[Enrico] Fermi wasn’t the first person to ask a variant of this question about alien intelligence. But he owns it ...
