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One of the reasons there are concerns about privacy on the Net is that much of our data can be cross-reference, and what we thought was anonymous becomes attached to our names. Here is a great example involves our tech villain du jour, Google.

Remember a few years ago Dr. Baselga and charges of conflicts of interest at Memorial Sloan Kettering? New York seems to have cleaned up its act, Boston not so much. 

“The pandemic today is almost unrecognizably different. In the United States, an acute, terrifying catastrophe has given way to the monotony of lowered expectations. There are no makeshift morgues in the streets.

There are many steps in research that, like making-sausage, are rarely viewed.

 

“Trust between humans relies on a frail and strange notion of shared experience, absurdity and vulnerability. Indeed, it’s surprisingly difficult to articulate exactly what trust is.

“As the pandemic engulfed the world during the past several months, I kept r

Michael Strevens' book, The Knowledge Machine, is one of those books you read first with your eyes, in the same way that food is first visually appealing.

A little under five years ago, I wrote my farewell article for RealClearScience.

“Conrad Hal Waddington became recognized as the last Renaissance biologist.