Today, I direct the spotlight at a scientist who has consistently brought us practical knowledge on the most important matters.
I have had the pleasure of working with renowned geophysicist and novelist Lee Hunt for the entire 4+ years that I have operated BIG Media Ltd.
Over that time, he has tackled pressing issues with pertinent data and logical analysis. He also excels as a philosopher.
He has taken on the most contentious of issues, including DEI, abortion, and illicit drugs and crime.
When COVID had most of us panicking, Lee was calmly laying out the facts with great accuracy and transparency.
When those who were reluctant to take COVID vaccines were being bullied and marginalized, Lee wrote beautifully balanced and insightful pieces on triage and biomedical ethics.
Some of the other topics Lee has covered:
- Overcoming stereotype threat and self-fulfilling prophecy
- When social justice goes awry
- The Robbers Cave experiment and DEI
- Wicked problems
- The warring principles surrounding abortion
- Responsibility, jurisprudence, and the magic mushroom decision
- Drugs and crime Part 2
- Post-surgery thoughts on the opioid crisis
- The recycling dilemma
- The smallest of lies are destroying our democratic institutions
- Myocarditis in children
- COVID-19 impact on young children
- Selfishness, hypocrisy, the golden rule, and hope
- Biases in estimating vaccine effectiveness
- Are booster shots actually boosting?
- Evaluating the effectiveness of COVID-19 booster shots
- Biomedical ethics
- COVID severity lower than forecast
- Omicron – vaccine effectiveness drops sharply
- Omicron – cases surge
- Vaccine effectiveness and adverse events
- Vaccine effectiveness nosedives in Ontario
- Analysis of severe events following COVID vaccination shows increased incidence of myocarditis and lymphadenopathy
- A responsible look at adverse events following immunization
- Analysis of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial for kids aged 5 to 11
- Case study on expert testimony and accuracy in vaccine effectiveness reporting
- The ethics of triage in a pandemic
- Prisoner’s dilemma and vaccination
- Predicting vaccination rates and outcomes for the Delta variant
- Understanding vaccination effectiveness and breakthrough
- COVID reproduction rates
- Climate change – environmental emergency or economic opportunity
- The rationality of positivity amid catastrophe
- Bill C-36; hate, truth, and the return of the tribunal
- Nudge and the uneasy pursuit of context and objectivity
- Breaking the news into rational pieces
- In search of the zone on the sharp end
- Building trust
- Examining the gender lens
- $1-million cleantech challenge prize goes to Summit CEO
- Exploring third side of the coin
- The third hand of fate
- Overcoming bias in news coverage
