Science and Society

My Morning Musings: To Facemask or Not to FacemaskTo facemask or not to facemask? Good golly, Miss Molly. How on earth did facemasks become such a contentious issue? I've been sitting on this musing for quite some time because I wanted to write when I had...

My Morning Musings: How Science is DoneTo begin, let’s get us ALL on the SAME PAGE. It is impossible - literally impossible - for the scientific community to respond to every conspiracy theory, YouTube disinformation video, Facebook armchair epidemiologist, and...

My Morning Musings: How Do You Kill a Virus? The answers to this question depend on where the virus is found – that is, whether it is found "on something non-living", "on something living", or "in something living".  So, "on or in" and "living and non-living" are...

Check out my guest column from The Plain Dealer, April 20, 2020. https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2020/04/breaking-the-coronavirus-rules-just-once-to-help-someone-in-need-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do-judi-nath.html

My Morning Musings: Words Matter We're in week ??? of the COVID-19 pandemic. With so much happening on a day-to-day basis, I struggled with what to write about today. Basically, I was suffering from analysis paralysis. I knew I didn't want to get into the dandelions;...

My Morning Musings: Treatment, Herd Immunity, and Vaccines The race for the cure is on!  So, let's take a moment to talk about what's making headlines right now.  To begin, there is so much misinformation and disinformation circulating on social media that I...

My Morning Musings: What are viruses and how do they "jump" from animals to humans? What are viruses? Viruses are just an organized collection of genetic material known as DNA or RNA enclosed by a protein shell. You can think of them as parasites, because they have to...

My Morning Musings: Public Service Announcement As I get asked more and more about school closures and quarantines, I thought I'd post what's on my mind today - from a person who has taught and written books on anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology,...