In all likelihood true, but don't let's forget that the Ukrainian authorities have an agenda too. (View Post)

I can't think of a single context in which it is useful to lump Chile in with the Global South. (View Post)

Hard scientists (physicists, chemists, engineers, microbiologists, and to a lesser extent physicians and biologists) are remarkably bad at the soft sciences. And, despite at how bad they are at them,… (View Post)

"The origins of the concept are complex, but historians usually credit it to the French demographer Alfred Sauvy, who coined the term “Third World” in a 1952 article entitled “Three Worlds, One … (View Post)

I thought that there was a British study of the morbidity and mortality of omicron vs prior variants in the unvaccinated and that that paper found there to be a 30% inherent reduction in the morbidit… (View Post)