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Future Perfect Archive

Archives for May 2020

This coronavirus model keeps being wrong. Why are we still listening to it?
Future Perfect

A model that the White House has relied on has come under fire for its flawed projections.

By Kelsey Piper
Explainers
Why some labs work on making viruses deadlier — and why they should stopWhy some labs work on making viruses deadlier — and why they should stop
Explainers

The pandemic should make us question the value of gain-of-function research.

By Kelsey Piper
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The moral cost of America’s meat-supply obsessionThe moral cost of America’s meat-supply obsession
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Thousands of meat-plant workers are getting sick and millions of animals are being euthanized during the pandemic.

By Sigal Samuel
Technology
The obscure rule that is discouraging billionaires’ foundations from going big on coronavirusThe obscure rule that is discouraging billionaires’ foundations from going big on coronavirus
Technology

These philanthropies have $1.2 trillion that they could spend on fighting the coronavirus. So why aren’t they?

By Theodore Schleifer
Future Perfect
It’s okay to be doing okay during the pandemicIt’s okay to be doing okay during the pandemic
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Stop feeling guilty. Start being useful.

By Sigal Samuel
America’s Covid-19 hot spots shed a light on our moral failures
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It’s no accident that prisons and meatpacking plants are hotbeds of Covid-19.

By Dylan Matthews

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