From vaccine skeptics to Covid deniers — the global anti-lockdown movement In a year defined by the coronavirus pandemic, those protesting lockdown measures mounted a fierce backlash in cities around the world. feature Coda Staff
Leftist defense of persecution of Uyghurs triggers a fierce response from professors An open letter signed by 35 international academics called out a Monthly Review article that denied the persecution of China's Muslim minority dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Left in limbo: a Pakistani man has spent the last month trapped in a Mexican airport follow-up Gautama Mehta
Switzerland’s teenage pseudoscience queen ‘Esoteric star’ Christina von Dreien has made a series of worrying statements on everything from Covid-19 and 5G to European identity feature Filip Brokeš
Understaffed health care workers battle Covid-19 across Russia follow-up Gautama Mehta and Katerina Fomina
Inside the anti-vaccine campaign that targets young women Viewing girls as innocent victims of a big pharma conspiracy or at risk of promiscuity, the movement is endangering the health of all women feature Isobel Cockerell
Madagascar pushes untested herbal coronavirus remedy on its neighbors The president makes outlandish claims about Covid-Organics feature Simon Allison and Aanu Adeoye
Conspiracy theorists are already pushing Trump’s dangerous coronavirus treatments The suggestion that disinfectant and UV light could treat Covid-19 cases has been promoted by radical pro-Trump conspiracy groups dispatch Isobel Cockerell
The campaign to promote a mysterious Soviet-era drug as a coronavirus miracle cure A viral Facebook video has fuelled interest in Arbidol, one of Russia’s most popular over-the-counter flu medicines, as a COVID-19 treatment dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Drawing Covid-19: Artists around the world illustrate coronavirus in their community feature Katia Patin
Meet the coronavirus politicians who have no time for science Doctors and scientists are at the forefront of government efforts to tackle coronavirus, but some ministers have openly rejected their expertise roundup Katia Patin