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.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


