Following last week’s Twitter dispute between Wits University professor of vaccinology Dr Shabir Madhi and University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes, the...
October 15th, 2019
By promoting the idea that technology is hijacking our brains and getting all of us addicted to our devices, techno-fearmongers elevate the exception rather than the...
October 15th, 2019
Changing old habits or forming new ones is hard. Yet, some people seem to struggle less than the rest of us. Who are these people? asks Wendy Wood, professor of...
March 11th, 2019I saw the future of political reporting half a dozen years ago, writes David von Drehle for The Washington Post, and I’ve been hoping to unsee it ever since. Twitter...
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is likely to walk back the stance on vaping laid out as part of its proposed rules for policing internet...Public Health
Social media bots and Russian trolls spread false information about vaccines on Twitter, seemingly using vaccination as a wedge issue, to promote discord, according to...Weekly Roundup
The Limpopo Health Department has apologised for a tweet from its official Twitter account claiming that anyone who dies of HIV today does so by choice, reports...Weekly Roundup
Following the conclusion of an appeal by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) against the not guilty verdict in favour of Professor Tim Noakes, his...
November 1st, 2017‘Bonespiration’ — the celebration of skeletal images of bodies featuring protruding bones and pencil-thin limbs — is being promoted on social media, University...
September 20th, 2017
Dr Vinay Prasad is a professional and inluential scold: He takes to Twitter each day to critique this cancer drug as ineffective, or blast that one as overpriced, or...
