Caitjan Gainty runs the Wellcome-funded Healthy Scepticism project. Back in February 2019, when the pandemic was still far from most people thoughts, the Fox News programme Fox & Friends aired a ...

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In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...

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In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. Germ theory refers to the principle that "certain diseases are caused by the invasion of ...