Journalist Kelsey Piper (Future Perfect / Vox) discusses lessons learned from covering COVID: What has she been wrong about, and why? How much can we trust the CDC’s advice? What does the evidence look like for different drugs like Fluvoxamine and Ivermectin? And should regular people really try to evaluate the evidence themselves instead of deferring to experts? (September 13, 2021)
Additional works mentioned in the episode:
- Vox’s Future Perfect
- Kelsey on Twitter: @kelseytuoc
- Kelsey’s “mea culpa” Twitter thread (March 2020)
- Kelsey’s article on fluvoxamine, “How a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment” (August 26, 2021)
- Kelsey’s article on de-growth, “Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?” (August 3, 2021)
- Together Trial (Kelsey recommends this site as a way to learn more about the innovative clinical trials being conducted on potential COVID drugs like fluvoxamine, ivermectin, and Metformin)