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17 Jun 2020

Coronavirus: why it’s dangerous to blindly ‘follow the science’ when there’s no consensus yet

In the face of the virus emergency, research standards have been relaxed to encourage faster publication and mistakes become inevitable. This is risky. Ultimately, if expert advice on the pandemic turns out to be wrong, it will have dire consequences for how reliable scientific evidence is treated in other policy areas, such as climate change.
In the face of the virus emergency, research standards have been relaxed to encourage faster publication and mistakes...

Publisher: Nature

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1 Jun 2020

Heat and coronavirus can be twin killers

We need to find out how human behaviour is changing in response to COVID-19, how this affects demands for food, energy, the Internet and transportation, and whether these altered demands are likely to increase or decrease people’s susceptibility to the effects of extreme weather.
We need to find out how human behaviour is changing in response to COVID-19, how this affects demands for food, energy,...

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