Ahead of the Curve

Sep 17, 2020 Covid19

Is Sturgis COVID-19 Study Really Wrong at 250k Cases? Exponential Growth Will Mess You Up

A recent working paper from the Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies (CHEPS) concluding that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally led to over 250k new..

Sep 8, 2020 Infection Control

How to Infect Your State in Three Easy Steps

It takes a special kind of magic to make South Dakota the pandemic poster child. With only eleven people per square mile, the state has..

Aug 27, 2020 Treatments and Vaccines

Trump’s Knee on the Neck of Science

In the past week, both the FDA and the CDC have collapsed to the pavement. Scientific rigor has been cast as Deep State conspiracy. Its..

Sep 8, 2020 The Twisted Helix

The Twisted Helix: Final Chapters

Final-ChaptersDownload CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: SWAT Cliff Hardacre squints into the morning sun as the four members of the Biotactics team double-check the seals on their moon..

Aug 20, 2020 Covid19

Are You Safe on a Plane? New Study Offers Clues

A surveillance state might not be an ideal place to live, but it sure makes for great epidemiology. In a Big Brother tour-de-force, Chinese epidemiologists..

Aug 11, 2020 The Twisted Helix

Twisted Helix: Chapters 41-44

PDF: THE-TWISTED-HELIX-Chapters-41-44Download CHAPTER FORTY-one The Lab I open my eyes. My head is throbbing. I try to open my mouth and feel duct tape..

Aug 12, 2020 Covid19

How to Survive the Pandemic: Lessons from a Mountain

In wildness is the preservation of the world. - Henry David Thoreau For three days, the invisible virus disappeared. High in the Beartooth Wilderness, masks..