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An oped in today’s WSJ about “Rage[ing] Against the ‘Bioethicists’ and the Dying of the Light” reminded me how different Hindu/Vedantic attitudes to life and death are from Judaic/Christian ...

In the scramble to build/acquire/commandeer ventilators the question arises: is the equipment the bottleneck or are other complementary facilities and trained technical and medical personnel to install and operate ...

Much is being made of the “success” of covid containment in South Korea and Taiwan. This seems based on rather superficial news reports. The BBC reports on Taiwan for instance say that people who were ...

This fine post by Maria Chikina (Pitt) and Wesley Pegden (CMU) reaches important if unpalatable conclusions, including: “There is a simple truth behind the problems with these modeling conclusions. The ...

My oped on covid 19 that the FT has just kindly published, emphasizes we are operating in a fog — of irreducible, radical uncertainty. As Mervyn King wisely put it. ” “No one can really know the nature ...