Pseudohealth Covid misinformation ignites a battle over blood in a Canadian province Vaccine fears are causing Canadians to refuse blood transfusions while a province executive peddles misinformation feature Rebekah Robinson
Pseudohealth Modi wants to export traditional Indian medicine to the world, but doctors warn against pseudoscience and quack cures Driven by ideology, the Indian government is promoting Ayurveda, a millennia-old system, as a valid alternative to Western medicine. But its “natural” cures are insufficiently tested and sometimes dangerous feature Catherine Davison
Weaponized Doubt Bolsonaro’s policies exacerbated food insecurity in Brazil. He’s unlikely to pay a political price Conservative values and tough-on-crime discourse has found traction, while the issue of hunger has been absent from the election feature Zoe Sullivan
Weaponized Doubt ‘They’re trying to kill us’: Uyghurs in Xinjiang suffer brutal Covid lockdown China sticks to its zero covid policy and represses despairing complaints on social media about the lack of food and medicines brief Isobel Cockerell
Weaponized Doubt 'Nobody helped me': Austria shaken by suicide of doctor trolled by anti-vaccine haters Police in Austria downplayed threats and abuse sent to a small-town doctor. Her death is prompting questions across Europe about how to protect people from trolling and bullying feature Emily Schultheis
Pseudohealth The medical establishment gaslights doctors, insisting long Covid is 'psychological' Covid long-hauler physicians reject their peers' party line that their symptoms are psychosomatic feature David Tuller
Weaponized Doubt At the Washington anti-mandate rally, global concerns get infected with the anti-vax treatment Protesters embraced the cognitive dissonance of claiming to own science while basking in conspiracies and fanciful theories essay Ilan Greenberg
Climate Closing Turkmenistan’s mysterious Gates of Hell Turkmenistan’s President Berdymukhamedov demands the fire burning in the country’s desert be put out feature Mariam Kiparoidze
Pseudohealth The Year in Conspiracy Theories, a 2021 Round-Up We’ve spent the year tracking conspiracist movements, and in this festive round-up, we pick out the worst of a bad bunch. roundup Isobel Cockerell
Pseudohealth I disguised myself as a Covid ICU doctor to care for my grandmother. Now, the Russian government is after me A welder filmed undercover videos in a Siberian coronavirus hospital. After his story went viral, he became a target and fled to avoid arrest. This is his story. first person Sergey Samborsky and Katia Patin
Pseudohealth The physicians debunking the massive misinformation about women’s health From reproductive health to sex-ed, here are five medical specialists debunking myths roundup Mariam Kiparoidze
Pseudohealth The one red pill Covid conspiracy theorists refuse to swallow A new oral medication has been been approved by the U.K. for treatment of the coronavirus, but anti vaxxers still believe it’s part of a shadowy plot to control the population feature Isobel Cockerell
Climate Eco-anxiety and how to cope with it Around the world, fears about the fate of the environment are having profound effects on mental health — particularly among young people. We spoke to the therapists and influencers helping to tackle the problem feature Mariam Kiparoidze
Weaponized Doubt The French doctors railing against vaccines and Covid-19 restrictions A vocal minority of healthcare professionals and medical researchers are helping to push anti-science ideas dispatch Valeria Costa-Kostritsky
Weaponized Doubt Is there any point in talking to a flat-earther? One philosopher thinks so The author and science historian Lee McIntyre discusses his latest book ‘How to Talk to a Science Denier’ q&a Dave Stelfox
