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Yolanda Augustin

Yolanda Augustin

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Yolanda Augustin is a doctor at St George's, University of London.

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    Truth After Trump

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Donald Trump is more dangerous than a mere liar because he found a way to exploit the economic doppelganger of science. Behind every government policy that affects us lurks some economic hypothesis whose authority is bolstered by a peer review process that the naked eye can mistake for the scientific process.

     explains what the former US president understood that made him no ordinary lying politician.
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    Biden’s Vaccine Challenge

    Michael Spence

    In confronting the COVID-19 crisis, US President Joe Biden will avoid many of his predecessor’s mistakes, not least by heeding the advice of scientific experts. But, unless Biden also enlists adequate management, operations, and logistics expertise, even his best-laid plans may go awry.

     explains that containing COVID-19 has become as much a logistical issue as a scientific one.
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