Thomas Levenson
When a Good Scientist Is the Wrong Source
How a bad “fact” helped the lab-leak hypothesis go viral.
The “Lab Leak”: It’s Not Enough to Say Accidents Happen
So far no one has come up with any clear account of how a coronavirus escaped biosafety level 4 barriers. Photograph by MihasLi / Shutterstock Disasters evoke a search for who to blame. Mishandled disasters make that search vital for anyone whose actions or inactions may have amplified the catastrophe’s damage. As the official United […]
The Lessons of a Ghost Planet
Vulcan shows us science beyond the scientific method.