PANDA Insights: 8 March 2024

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Caught in their own trap?

by Thomas Verduyn

A recent article about growing vaccine hesitancy in the US, and how to counter it, relies on certain assumptions about vaccines and their efficacy. This article looks at some of these claims.

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The reach of the fact-check industry and fact-checking incentives

by Judith Brown

The intrusion of fact-checking into free speech extends globally across all forms of media with investigations revealing around 500 active fact-check platforms worldwide, almost half linked to media outlets.

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Revisiting China: Did a Pandemic really start in Wuhan?

by Thomas Verduyn

While there has been much debate about where the virus came from, few have questioned that a pandemic started in Wuhan. We look in more detail at what happened in China in early 2020.

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Open Sessions: Rahim Taghizadegan

The journey from the inception of early banking to the dynamic world of digital currencies unveils a fascinating pattern of escalating centralization. Economist, Rahim Taghizadegan tackles pressing questions: What propels the momentum of financial centralization? How has the field of economics evolved through the centuries, and what role does it currently play in shaping the contours of financial centralization?


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PANDA Position: Nature of events of the Covid era

PANDA is committed to open scientific debate and challenging long-held assumptions, and staunchly opposed to the censorship and stifling of critical thinking which characterizes the present day. Our principles assert as much, unequivocally. Science should never be regarded as “settled.” As an organisation we are used to embracing lively debate and new evidence, even to the extent that such inquiry might (and does) falsify core hypotheses we had previously thought were correct.

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