Category Archives: COVID

Faith Over Fear? Wut?!

This despicable and entirely unbiblical meme keeps popping up in the social media feeds of what I’ll assume (out of generosity) is a sincere desire to help others. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Overview Anti-mask/vaxx Christians keep using these verses to support their anti-science aggression. [2Timothy 1:7 CSB] 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear,Continue reading “Faith Over Fear? Wut?!”

The Politicization of Science?

How does one politicize Science when Science has NO political inputs? Indirectly. You politicize its participants and its outputs. How does this work out in reality? Short answers is disastrously. Now for the long answer. THE BIG IDEAS First, what is Science? It is an enterprise where human beings do their best to explain howContinue reading “The Politicization of Science?”

COVID Aerosol Physics

In spite of evidence to the contrary, many people persist in the false belief that masks do not work, or that respiratory viruses are somehow not airborne. The Physics of aerosols is conceptually simple though mathematically complex. It’s also within the realm of what an undergraduate student in Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering would encounter alongContinue reading “COVID Aerosol Physics”

COVID Vaccine Ingredients

The Pfizer vaccine has the following ingredients, which are essentially the same as what’s in the Moderna version, but they use a few different salts in their pH control and the lipid formula is slightly different. The explanations under the headings that follow include the percentage that each major ingredient group comprises. mRNA lipids ((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate),Continue reading “COVID Vaccine Ingredients”

On Understanding Science and Loving Your Neighbor

Science is an enterprise armed with methodological tools that describe and explain how Nature unfolds. In the Natural Sciences, we have the luxury of physical laws that lend us predictive power because of the empirically familiar regularities present in Nature. Sometimes the math is simple and sometimes it is not.  Now please forgive me asContinue reading “On Understanding Science and Loving Your Neighbor”

Beating COVID With Better Ventilation

In less than 19 minutes, this presentation seeks to answer the question … How can Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) address the problem of SARS CoV-2? Easy. Physics describes and Engineering solves the problems that IAQ experts have known for decades. IAQ transcends this pandemic and can deliver major gains for Public Health if we willContinue reading “Beating COVID With Better Ventilation”

Poor Ventilation in Schools

This is just a quick listing of research on how poorly ventilated most school buildings are. Ventilation is more important than ever in the COVID era, but we should have done better long ago for the sake of student health and learning. Here are some details. NOTE: some articles will address other venues, such asContinue reading “Poor Ventilation in Schools”