Science & Health Inside the anti-vaccine campaign that targets young women Viewing girls as innocent victims of a big pharma conspiracy or at risk of promiscuity, the movement is endangering the health of all women feature Isobel Cockerell
Science & Health Politicians are wearing ‘virus blockers’ to protect themselves from Covid-19. Problem is, they don’t work Anti-coronavirus badges offer virtually no defense against the disease dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Science & Health Madagascar pushes untested herbal coronavirus remedy on its neighbors The president makes outlandish claims about Covid-Organics feature Simon Allison
Science & Health Conspiracy theorists are already pushing Trump’s dangerous coronavirus treatments The suggestion that disinfectant and UV light could treat Covid-19 cases has been promoted by radical pro-Trump conspiracy groups dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Science & Health The campaign to promote a mysterious Soviet-era drug as a coronavirus miracle cure A viral Facebook video has fuelled interest in Arbidol, one of Russia’s most popular over-the-counter flu medicines, as a COVID-19 treatment dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Science & Health Meet the coronavirus politicians who have no time for science Doctors and scientists are at the forefront of government efforts to tackle coronavirus, but some ministers have openly rejected their expertise roundup Katia Patin
Science & Health “You lie there wondering if the person coughing next to you has coronavirus”: Hospital patients defy Russian state narrative Struggling, poorly equipped healthcare facilities could be aiding the spread of COVID-19 in Moscow dispatch Maria Koltsova
Science & Health Eastern Orthodox Church leader orders suspension of services in response to coronavirus New directive follows controversy over the potential spread of COVID-19 via Holy Communion rites and other religious practices follow-up Katia Patin
Science & Health Russia says it has hardly any coronavirus cases. Doctors say otherwise. Low reported cases of COVID-19 and chaotic, poorly equipped hospitals point to politics taking precedence over a public health crisis dispatch Ilan Greenberg and Katerina Fomina
Science & Health Communion in the time of coronavirus Controversy over church rites pits medical science against faith across much of the Eastern Orthodox world dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
Science & Health The global anti-vax movement: a visual history Disinformation about vaccines has been around for hundreds of years feature Mariam Kiparoidze
Science & Health Meet the doctors fighting anti-vax attackers online Anti-vaccine online abuse is scaring doctors into silence. But now hundreds are fighting back dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Science & Health How a disinformation campaign wiped out synthetic insulin’s deadly effects Hundreds of people died in the two decades after synthetic insulin was launched. A disinformation campaign covered up their plight Audrey Farley
