Articles tagged with "virus"

At this very moment, there is a war going on in my body.

Over the past few months, I've been contacted a few times by one of our members sending information about Covid from the popular podcast TWiV - This Week in Virology. The podcast is hosted by Dr Vincent Racaniello with a number of co-hosts. Dr Racaniello has spent 40 years in virus research at Columbia University.

One of the interesting aspects of being part of NZ Skeptics is that we often get contacted by people to espouse views and theories that diverge from the mainstream, evidence-based views on things.

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Yet another anti-hero of the COVID story is Dr Simon Thornley, of the COVID Plan B group who we've mentioned many times in the past.

A story about essential oils being used in classrooms https://tinyurl.com/y5vs9pvo hit the headlines on 30th March.

Spoiler alert: Don't read if you haven't seen the film Contagion (which I highly recommend) but want to.