Surviving cancer is a war of attrition against an adaptive enemy
By Matt Ridley
There has been an almost obsessive reluctance among public health experts to admit Omicron is mild
By Matt Ridley
Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins
By Matt Ridley
In both Yunnan and Laos, the only people who knowingly transported bat virus samples to Wuhan — and only to Wuhan — were scientists
By Matt Ridley
For reasons that are not clear, western environmentalists are mad keen on China, despite its appetite for coal
By Matt Ridley
Just because Donald Trump thought the virus came out of a lab does not mean that it did not
By Matt Ridley
Mutations occur all the time; what matters is which ones find favor in natural selection
By Matt Ridley
What if 2020 went down in history as the year synthetic biology dealt a mortal blow to future viruses?
By Matt Ridley
There is no course that involves zero suffering. It’s a question of minimizing it
By Matt Ridley
From lethal pandemic to common cold: what we can learn from the events of 1889-90
By Matt Ridley
Vitamin D deficiency may or may not help to prevent you catching the virus, but it does affect whether you get very sick from it
By Matt Ridley
It is data, not modeling, that we need now
By Matt Ridley
There are reasons to be optimistic about the therapies being tested
By Matt Ridley
On March 14, the UK was the fifth best country for quantity of COVID-19 viral tests performed per capita. By March 30 it had fallen to 26th
By Matt Ridley
Why does it affect the generations differently?
By Matt Ridley
