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How Science Shapes Policy in the COVID-19 Crisis

In this ongoing series, leading researchers debate how to turn knowledge into action.

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Recessions often improve population health, but COVID-19 may be different

Mortality rates typically fall during economic downturns. But the unprecedented features of the COVID-19 shutdown suggest that trend might not hold this time.

Sarah Burgard, Lucie Kalousova

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As Telemedicine Surges, Will Community Health Suffer?

Early advocates thought it could provide equal access to high-quality care. But private investment has increasingly crowded out public service, and use is now surging during the COVID-19 crisis.

Jeremy A. Greene

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New Pathogen, Old Politics

We should be wary of simplistic uses of history, but we can learn from the logic of social responses.

Alex de Waal

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Eight Needed Steps in the Fight Against COVID-19

In addition to masks and ventilators, doctors demand a fundamental transformation of our health care system.

Adam Gaffney

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Thinking in a Pandemic

The latest on COVID-19 from Boston Review

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Markets v. Lives

Claims that the cure is worse than the disease rely on a false tradeoff between human needs and the economy.

Gregg Gonsalves, Amy Kapczynski

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Alone Against the Virus

Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.

Amy Kapczynski, Gregg Gonsalves

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Robots Are Coming

In the overhyped age of deep learning, rumors of thinking robots are greatly exaggerated. Still, we cannot leave decisions about even this sort of AI in the hands of those who stand to profit from its use.

Kenneth A. Taylor

Gender & Sexuality, Science & Nature

Science Won't Settle Trans Rights

Appeals to the biological facts conceal a deeper contest over political equality—and scientific authority itself.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Science Hasn't Refuted Free Will

A growing chorus says that science has shown free will to be an illusion. But it actually has offered arguments in its favor.

Christian List

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Science for Sale

By using a variety of ploys to manufacture doubt, a whole industry of science-for-hire experts helps corporations put profits over public health and safety.

David Michaels