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Find yourself wracked with uncertainty and feel like nothing makes sense? What if you felt such uncertainty because the headlines were sculpted by behavioural scientists to elicit this exact response? And why would the Government offer up such incoherent babble if they were not utterly
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(This is Part One of a three-part series. Click here for Part Two and here for Part Three). There once was a time when we could assess the evidence, make conclusions and then discuss how best to integrate these findings into policy. This has not
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In early December 2019, doctors in the Wuhan province of China reported that they had identified a novel virus in a cluster of patients. They linked them to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale market nearby. They identified this virus as a mutant strain in the series
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