“Case Numbers Don’t Matter”—and Other Fatal Covid Fallacies

The logic behind “cases don’t matter”—the drumbeat of medical professionals pushing us back to normal—is a direct violation of the oath to “first, do no harm.”

Gregg Gonsalves

A Last Gift of Love: One Way to Switzerland, Business Class

In America, we allow our pets more dignity in death than we allow people.

Jack Willis and Mary Pleshette Willis

The Right’s Bad-Faith Argument About Bodily Autonomy

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants to catch us in a trap where either we concede the state’s right to coerce reproduction or we abandon the state’s right to mandate vaccines.

David M. Perry

Unvaxxed Quarterback Carson Wentz Wants Your Trust

If the Colts players and fans trusted him before, he has now relinquished the right to any such dispensation.

Dave Zirin

Letters From the September 6/13, 2021, Issue

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Which Is the More Prescient Dystopia? ‘Gattaca’ or ‘Parable of the Sower’

Is it the 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke or is it Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel?

David M. Perry and Niela Orr

We Can’t Trust Big Pharma to Make Enough Vaccines

Global vaccine scarcity is not inevitable.

Christopher Morten and Matthew Herder

Nuclear Impasse

The USA and Iran clash on sanctions.

Felipe Galindo

The Fight to Ban Chemical Warfare Helped Us Battle Covid-19

The research of chemist Julian Perry Robinson and biologist Matthew Meselson on arms control set public health standards for understanding the spread of contagion.

Peter Pringle

Got Vaccinated?

Passport to greater freedom… carefully.

Peter Kuper and Ron Hauge