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Opinion: Vaccine hesitancy goes back 200 years. We need global techniques here in the U.S. Michael Nyenhuis FacebookTwitterEmail Shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine seen on May 12.Ron Harris/Associated Press When it comes to vaccinations, the Bay Area is outpacing other counties in California and across the country. Yet vaccine hesitancy remains a barrier to achieving herd immunity here and elsewhere. The debate around vaccine misinformation — and the ease with which it spreads on social ...

Louie Veleski has some interesting opinions. He thinks ghosts exist and humans have never been to the moon. A resident of Melbourne, Australia, Veleski expounds on his points of view on his YouTube channel, Better Mankind, which earns him up to $5,400 a month. Conspiracy theories, it turns out, are very profitable for the YouTube-inclined entrepreneur. On his channel, Peladophobian, Ryan Silvey, 18 and also from Australia, posts videos like “School Is Illuminati” and “Donald Trump...

<strong>21WIRE</strong> | Evidence reveals how the US government has deprioritized treating sick patients, choosing instead to focus on the WHO recommended strategy of social distancing, lockdowns, masking and vaccines.

Ivermectin is seen as a repeat of hydroxychloroquine and not to be taken seriously. Belief in it, worthy only of derision.

How should we label AI media in ways that people understand? And how might the labels backfire?

Pam Jenoff: On Writing About Isolation While Isolated Bestselling author Pam Jenoff shares how she explored themes of isolation in her latest novel, The Woman with the Blue Star, while writing during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Author: New York Times bestsellers The Lost Girls of Paris and The Orphans Tale. She holds a bachelors degree in international affairs from George Washington University and a masters degree in history from Cambridge, and she received her Juris Doctor from the Universit...

Highly Cited COVID Doctor Comes To Stunning Conclusion: Gov’t ‘Scrubbing Unprecedented Numbers’ Of Injection-Related Deaths By Leo Hohmann One of the world’s most prominent medical doctors with expertise in treating COVID-19 has gone on the record with a scathing rebuke of the U.S. government’s approach to fighting the virus. He says the government’s strategy, carried out in cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations World Health Organization, has...

From the Existential Issue: Post-truth and the press The concept of a “post truth” society has been with us since at least 1992, when Steve Tesich, a screenwriter, defined it in a seminal piece for The Nation. America’s shame after Watergate, Tesich wrote, compounded by the speed with which Richard Nixon had been pardoned, made Americans disinclined to face unpleasant truths about our country. The media-savvy Ronald Reagan was able to exploit that shame, betting correctly that neither th...

Why Memory Is the Scariest Thing Of All in a Psychological Thriller Novel Critically acclaimed thriller novelist Carter Wilson explains why he uses memory—or complete lack thereof—as a central thematic element in his works and how other writers can as well. Author: This rumination belongs to Alice Grey, protagonist of my psychological thriller Mister Tenders Girl. Alice is haunted by many things—including very clear and present threats—but nothing haunts Alice more than her own m...

Save this story for later. When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to explode, in 1986. The idea was that people in an organization can become so accepting of a problem that they no longer consider it to be problematic. (In the case of the Challenger, NASA had been warned that the shuttle’s O-rings were likely to fail in cold temper...