Science matters. The remarkable response to Covid has reminded us | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

While there have been setbacks, in Australia at least it would be hard to find many people distrusting of scientistsBeing an epidemiologist in 2020 has been a very odd experience. This time last year, when I told people my job title, more than half the time I ’d be met with a blank look and then the tentative question: “Is that … like a skin doctor?”.Explaining that it was more like a spreadsheet doctor rarely went down that well.Continue reading...
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