Mar 5, 2026
Authors: New scams using AI–Don’t fall for it! Independent authors like me are proud of our work, and we crave exposure and validation from an audience. This makes us vulnerable to a legion of scammers and predators out there. I’ve been in the...
Jul 30, 2023
The pandemic is over Excess deaths, US, January 2020 to July 2023. Source: Our World in Data. The COVID-19 pandemic is over A lifetime ago–April 2020–I wrote the first of four blog posts on the coronavirus “Endgame.” As we floundered through...
Jun 22, 2023
Lab leak vs spillover: Origin of COVID-19 Electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Public Health Images library, CDC, public domain. Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? SARS-CoV-2 is the formal name of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. A key...
Apr 30, 2023
Book Review: Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk US cover of Orhan Pamuk’s historical fiction novel Nights of Plague (amazon link) In 2006, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2016, he started writing a novel about an epidemic...
Feb 4, 2023
Before COVID, There Was Flu Photo by Alan Emery on Unsplash Will bird flu be the source of the next global pandemic? As a microbiology professor and a science thriller novelist, I’ve been fascinated by deadly plagues for a long time. My interest began when I...
