How the misuse of science compounded South Africa's Covid crisis
Repeated claims that the country was “following the science” really meant it was following a particular science followed by some Western scientists.
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Repeated claims that the country was “following the science” really meant it was following a particular science followed by some Western scientists.
It was the biases of its ‘first world’ which prevented South Africa from mobilising the energies and talents of most of its people against COVID-19.
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Editor's note: Dr. Mike Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University. RALEIGH - Although I no longer
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