I’m quite excited about a number of new papers published in our special issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, where I am lead guest editor, including this new one by Ward and Guevara on how consciousness arises from the complex electromagnetic fields of the brain. …

This post contains quick links to articles and resources on false positive tests examples and issues; understanding the severity of the false positives issue is central to understanding how badly pandemic policy backfired and caused more problems than it solved I’ve written extensively on how false positives have from the…

This is the best book on the pandemic I’ve read and one of the best books on current affairs I’ve ever read. Get it. Now. Read it. And share with your friends and family. I also address some quibbles and critiques I have of the book. “The judges deferred to…

Only 23% of HMC’s “Covid hospitalizations” are because of Covid-19 and the rest are incidental, based upon a positive PCR test result, required upon admission to the hospital As a policy lawyer I’ve learned over the years how to dig deeply into issues to figure out what’s going on beneath…

We often fear the wrong things. The latest horrific news out of China, that the authorities seem to be using their “social credit” and Covid-19 tracking apps to squelch public protests, is something we should worry about here in the US and other Western nations because there are powerful forces…

We can apply our “measurable correlates of consciousness” approach to provide answers to this question, at least in outline form This is part of a conversation in early 2022 between a Google engineer (LeMoine) and LaMDA, Google’s AI “chatbot generator”: lemoine [edited]: Let’s take it for granted for the moment…

A column in today’s New York Times today highlights new studies that have found almost 200,000 people in the US under 45 years old died as a result of lockdown policies in 2020 and 2021. …

Miracles are possible, apparently. I’m now on my third adventure in vegan eating. I did a one month experiment five years ago, a three month experiment four years ago, and am almost six weeks in to my third experiment now. I normally follow a “vegan-ish” diet, where I allow myself…

New peer-reviewed research finds no physical basis for long Covid in most patients and the only strong correlations are female gender and a history of anxiety disorder This is a tough message to hear but a lot of CDC “science” is, in the words of this UCSF epidemiologist, Dr. …