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Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics

Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics

By Suranya Aiyar

A fierce critique by Indian mathemtatics graduate and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar, of everything Covid: the science, philosophy, politics and ethics. An international and historical survey of how we got the crisis wrong, and what we need to do to solve it. Once you start thinking about it, the answers are clear and simple.

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Part 3: What is a pandemic?

Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful EthicsJul 15, 2020

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Part 10: Make Love, Not War with the Queen of Viruses

Part 10: Make Love, Not War with the Queen of Viruses

Part 10 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-10-make-love-not.html.

Jul 24, 202052:26

Part 9: Why Not Pharmaceutical Intervention and Other Unanswered Questions

Part 9: Why Not Pharmaceutical Intervention and Other Unanswered Questions

Part 9 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here: https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-9-why-not.html.

Jul 23, 202047:47

Part 8: The Novel Thinking Needed for a Novel Disease

Part 8: The Novel Thinking Needed for a Novel Disease

Part 8 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-8-novel-thinking.html.

Jul 22, 202051:12

Part 7: Discipline & Punish

Part 7: Discipline & Punish

Part 7 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar in which we continue our discussion from Part 6 of how non-pharmaceutical interventions for disease control create a hostile and stigmatizing environment; and how they become a weapon of state abuse. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-7-discipline-punish.html.

Jul 21, 202047:26

Part 6: The Injustice & Violence of Lockdown

Part 6: The Injustice & Violence of Lockdown

Part 6 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-6-injustice-and.html.

Jul 18, 202049:36

Part 5: Old Age & Old Truths Revealed by Covid-19

Part 5: Old Age & Old Truths Revealed by Covid-19

Part 5 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here

https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-5-old-age-old.html.

Jul 17, 202045:23

Part 4: Exeunt Ventilators, Enter Foucault

Part 4: Exeunt Ventilators, Enter Foucault

Part 4 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-4-exeunt.html

Jul 16, 202053:50

Part 3: What is a pandemic?

Part 3: What is a pandemic?

The metaphysics and psychology of an epidemic and the deep confusion of the WHO about the science of pandemics by mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture on https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-3-what-is-pandemic.html

Jul 15, 202042:31

Part 2: What the Imperial College Report said.

Part 2: What the Imperial College Report said.

Slicing through the epidemiological report that sent the world into lockdown with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture on https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-2-what-imperial.html.

Jul 14, 202047:47

Part 1: What is epidemiology?

Part 1: What is epidemiology?

A fierce critique of everything Covid, starting here with some basics that everyone should know about epidemiology. Read the transcript on https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-1-what-is.html.

Jul 13, 202020:23