New publication - a comment titled “Ethical justification of coercive public health policies must be premised upon their safety and efficacy” in @SpringerEthics Monash Bioethics Review, rdcu.be/fmfB8
In response to Johnson et al. (2025), I argue that any attempt to justify a public health policy is void if the underlying intervention has not been shown, beyond reasonable doubt, to be effective, necessary, proportionate, and safe.
Conway's Game of Life in ArcGIS Pro ModelBuilder. I found this surprisingly difficult to build, incl. issue with layer file overwrites, variables/parameters, and the feedback loop. Next on the menu for GEO441 GIScience students @TMUGeo is a wildfire model using cellular automata.
Just published @IJERPH_MDPI : “Scope and Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Workplace Vaccination Mandates During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, mdpi.com/1660-4601/23/1/37. Yet another incoherent government response policy that lacked justification and was harmful rather than effective.
Just published @COVIDMDPI : "The Class Gap in Pandemic Attitudes and Experiences", doi.org/10.3390/covid5120195. An exploration and interpretation of crosstab data from the COVID-19 Trends & Impact Survey (CTIS) by education level and time.
Happy #LoveDataWeek! In @ChooseTMU's GEO641 "GIS and Decision Support" this term we watched @thenfb's 1968 "Data for Decision", made apples & oranges comparable, used @Esri's Suitability Modeler, and had guests speak about geospatial data in waste mgmt and univ planning #careers!
First written in Dec 2020, cancelled by a "critical geographies" journal, published Jan 2023, now #2 most cited in the respected Geografiska Annaler B -- "The academic left, human geography, and the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic", tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
Web interface for Ioannidis' (2024) Stanford/Elsevier ranking of the world's top 2% scientists based on career-long citations updated to end of 2023, crinner.github.io/top-scient…
Volume 3 and counting: "The #Coronoia Revolutions: Witnessing the Failure of Public Health and the Loss of Common Sense in the Western Matrix", 98-page colour paperback or eBook, amazon.ca/dp/B09MYSHLHW. Plus "The #Coronoia Trinity" bundle, amazon.ca/dp/B09MYXSBD2.
Published volume 2 of the Coronoia series today:
"The Coronoia Reloaded: Surfing the Waves of SARS-CoV-2 and Lockdowns in Canada and Around the World", amazon.ca/dp/B099BYQN78.
Kindle/eBook to follow.
"The Coronoia Perfecta: Global Hygiene Theatre and Health Delusion -- Cliff-Hanger or Closure?".
Volume 5 of the #Coronoia series, 176 pages filled with 24 blog posts from June 2022 to April 2023.
Available in paperback and e-book formats at amazon.ca/dp/B0C2SVRQZS.