The next disaster could easily be a foreseeable economic disaster. The UK and the world generally may soon run out of cash to pay for the coronavirus lockdown measures, (e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/ne… (View Post)

Many scientists are having much greater problems. In astronomy many major telescopes are closed as technicians cannot work to maintain them, including at remote sites. Telescopes and probes launched … (View Post)

I have no opinion about the validity of this paper which I have not read, but I can see that its conclusion is controversial. The author Paunio is not very well known. The committees and working grou… (View Post)

The OBR’s coronavirus analysis assumes that economic activity will get back to normal after a lockdown for three months. Is the OBR's economic scenario realistic? Alternatively, does the government i… (View Post)

People are used to being told what to do by the authorities and are trained to assume that they will handle any crisis, such as terrorists ("See It Say It Sorted"). In three months' time th… (View Post)