Photo: Students march along the Palm Walk on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus to encourage new and first-time voters to turn out on Election Day 2022. A survey of more than 1,500 young voters in Arizona last year found them to be more engaged and educated than previous generations. (File photo by Kiersten Edgett/Special for
“We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.” That’s the key sentence in an article published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, titled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” It’s also a prime example of eminently credentialed and government-subsidized scientists saying the exact opposite of what they believed, in an attempt
A Democratic watchdog group has called for a U.S. House committee to rescind an invitation to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the Democratic presidential candidate was filmed falsely suggesting COVID-19 could have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. Kyle Herrig, executive director of the Congressional Integrity Project, sent a letter to
The Arizona State Senate voted 16-14 to pass HCR2039, which will place on the ballot a proposition that would terminate gubernatorial emergency powers after 30 days unless extended by the state Legislature. The resolution sponsored by Rep. Joseph Chaplik, R-Scottsdale, does allow for exceptions to the termination. The state of emergency can only be extended by
Confidence in the scientific community declined among U.S. adults in 2022, a major survey shows, driven by a partisan divide in views of both science and medicine that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, 39% of U.S. adults said they had “a great deal of confidence” in the scientific community, down from 48% in 2018
This month marks the three-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 shutdown. It is surreal to look back at the early days of the pandemic. The shift from normal life to the setting of a dystopian novel was swift and jarring, and the amount we didn’t know about the disease was staggering. There are things we