As of August 2021, 330,000 academic articles involving over one million different authors had been published on Covid-19. But instead of pushing the boundaries of knowledge, all this attention is actually undermining the principles of good science, says scholar John P. A. Ioaniddis. Writing in Tablet, Ioaniddis explains how the politics of the pandemic is eroding scientific skepticism.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
