Monster stories, like roller coasters, allow us to safely experience one of our most intense emotions: fear. The existence of vampires can alleviate our dread at the thought of dying, while...
As medicine uses more and more complex tools to treat illness, I worry that these newer interventions will be seen as impenetrable black boxes. A pill is easy to understand, but gene therapy?...
Stop me if you鈥檝e heard this one before. Dr. Edward Jenner invented vaccines because of an observation he and he alone made. You see, milkmaids were renowned for their beauty. At a time when...
The directors and producer behind Died Suddenly, the viral 鈥渄ocumentary鈥� that tried to convince us that the COVID-19 vaccines were felling people by creating fibrous clots, are at it again. Their...
Grievances against the pharmaceutical industry are common in new media spaces. Influencers on Instagram tell us to shun drugs and embrace the 鈥渘atural.鈥� Diatribes are shared on Facebook against the...
