/oss/taxonomy/term/4587/all en /oss/article/covid-19-health-general-science/lets-hear-it-voices-reason <p>The COVID-19 pandemic has been a golden opportunity for schemers, contrarians and conspiracy theorists to use public distress and thirst for knowledge to widen their reach. It is easy to get lost in those weeds and forget that there are good people whose intellectual rigour and clarity have provided us all with metaphorical flashlights during these dark times. They have looked at an expanding (and sometimes contracting) body of evidence on COVID-19, delineated the border between what we knew and didn’t know, and explained to us the maddening uncertainties of science in real-time.</p> Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:45:11 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8692 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health/going-batty-about-coronavirus <p>The origin of COVID-19 (SARS-Cov2) has been the subject of intense academic discussion. Unfortunately, some theories would make for an intriguing Hollywood production but are based more on rumour than fact. Luckily, technology has helped to keep these rumors at bay: for some time now, we have been able to compare organisms at the molecular level and use this information to establish whether one may have derived from the other.</p> Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:54:39 +0000 Alaka Mullick PhD 8284 at /oss