Both the number of cases and the number of deaths from the Covid-19 virus are currently doubling worldwide every six days. In some areas of the U.S., the doubling is occurring even faster. Unless drastic measures are taken immediately, the doubling could spell disaster for humanity. by Robert Epstein, Ph.D. …

The only way to quickly halt the transmission of the coronavirus and to safely reopen the economy is to test everyone, and then to have the virus carriers self-isolate. If we mobilize our vast resources, we can accomplish this in a matter of weeks, and countless lives will be saved, along with the economy. — There is a relatively simple way to stop the coronavirus dead in its tracks. It might sound impossible at first, but it’s well within our capabilities, and it’s far less costly and disruptive than what countries around the world are doing now.

A newly leaked internal FBI report has concluded that President Trump was not eligible to run for president in 2016 because he is not a native born American. The report explains at least eight things about Mr. Trump that have baffled people around the world for several years. First, early…

Taming Big Tech: The Case for Monitoring — What if, early in the morning on Election Day in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg had used Facebook to broadcast “go-out-and-vote” reminders just to supporters of Hillary Clinton? Extrapolating from Facebook’s own published data, that might have given Mrs. Clinton a boost of 450,000 votes or more, with no one but Mr…

Efforts by Google, Facebook and others to try to suppress fake news are potentially more harmful than fake news itself I recently attended an all-day workshop on fake news at one of the top law schools in the US. By the end of the day, this roomful of impressive experts…

I haven’t received a targeted ad on my computer or mobile phone since 2014. If you care about your privacy or the privacy of your children — or even if you’re just sick of being bombarded by ads for diet pills seconds after you send an email to a friend…

Philosophers and neuroscientists be damned — there is nothing even slightly mysterious about consciousness — I believe I am as conscious as anyone. When I am awake and my eyes are open, I see a stable, colorful, and continuous world all around me, and that world doesn’t wobble when my eyes move. This fact alone suggests that I am experiencing consciousness, because what I am…

Here are six of the cunning ways philosophers and other experts on consciousness are likely to criticize the essay I published recently in The Awl — “Decapitating Consciousness” — complete with some of the colorful and abusive language academics sometimes use when criticizing each other. …