UNDER EMBARGO TO 00.01 CET, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2023 World is set to miss UN targets for preventing deadly and … Read More
16th November 2021 The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences @WRRThinkTank It is … Read More
October 2020 Warren Pearce Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Nature The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic has forced science advisory institutions and … Read More
INGSA/Koi Tū EXCLUSIVE COVID-19 has created a communication context for scientists. But what happens when differing forms of expertise and evidence offer competing understandings? And what happens when the public observe these disagreements?
For whatever happens next, what is already evident is that expert advisers and scientific institutions found themselves so wrong, commentators and policy-makers so short-sighted, affluent societies so poorly resourced, macho demagogues and plutocrats so indecisive, and democracies and autocracies so ill-prepared.… Read More
3rd June 2020 Dr. Angela Cassidy PANDEMIPOLITICS @ange_cass Angela is a Lecturer at the Centre for Rural Policy Research, Department … Read More
30th April 2020 Paul-Marie Boulanger and Andrea Saltelli SSRN Abstract In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, important transformations are … Read More
The Future of Life Institute @FLIxrisk WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING The viral disease known as COVID-19 has claimed hundreds … Read More
How is it possible that we were not ready? Not only had Bill Gates been banging on about this for a long time, but pandemics also featured strongly on regional and national risk registers produced by governments and bureaucrats, as well as international registers from non-governmental organisations.… Read More
21st April 2020 Jim Al-Khalili in The Guardian Author of The World According to Physics People are searching for certainty … Read More
