SILENCING THE COVID QUACKS

CLAIRE BERLINSKI, PARIS The Internet has enabled the anti-vaccination movement to become a global menace, threatening millions of lives. Censorship is a blunt tool. It does nothing to address the larger phenomenon: the crumbling of the epistemic architecture of our society.


LAB LEAKS AND THE GREAT FILTER

CLAIRE BERLINSKI, PARIS Rapid advances in biotechnology mean that soon, millions of labs, around the world, will have the know-how and the means to create genetically engineered viruses. The law of averages says one of them will screw up. Nothing else poses a greater threat to the human race.