DIY Alzheimer’s screening

pretty good results

picks up cognitive impairment 6 months sooner than the more complex, gold-standard Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), allowing for earlier intervention

COVID communication errors

Systematic failure to communicate

DIY social networking

If you're tired of Facebook or Twitter or wherever else and have thought that there's got to be a better way, this is for you.

Run your own social network

Running a social network site is community building first and a technical task second.

And while community building is hard work, it's often worth it.

Merchants of Doubt

Ten years on, still important.

[In] Merchants of Doubt, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explain how a loose–knit group of high-level scientists, with extensive political connections, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. In seven compelling chapters addressing tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming, and DDT, Oreskes and Conway roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how the ideology of free market fundamentalism, aided by a too-compliant media, has skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

Some publicly available documents 

Vaccine hesitancy

It’s really a class issue

If the world is going to beat the pandemic, countries need policies that promote a basic, but increasingly forgotten, idea: that our individual flourishing is bound up in collective well-being...

The types of social programs that best promote this way of thinking are universal ones, like Social Security and universal health care. Universal programs inculcate a sense of a common good because everyone is eligible simply by virtue of belonging to a political community. In the international context, when marginalized communities benefit from universal government programs that bring basic services like clean drinking water and primary health care, they are more likely to trust efforts in emergency situations — like when they’re asked to get vaccinated.