Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics

A fierce critique by Indian mathemtatics graduate and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar, of everything Covid: the science, philosophy, politics and ethics. An international and historical survey of how we got the crisis wrong, and what we need to do to solve it. Once you start thinking about it, the answers are clear and simple.

Part 10: Make Love, Not War with the Queen of Viruses

Part 10 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-10-make-love-not.html.

07-24
52:26

Part 9: Why Not Pharmaceutical Intervention and Other Unanswered Questions

Part 9 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar.  Read the lecture here: https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-9-why-not.html. 

07-23
47:47

Part 8: The Novel Thinking Needed for a Novel Disease

Part 8 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar.  Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-8-novel-thinking.html.

07-22
51:11

Part 7: Discipline & Punish

Part 7 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar in which we continue our discussion from Part 6 of how non-pharmaceutical interventions for disease control create a hostile and stigmatizing environment; and how they become a weapon of state abuse. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-7-discipline-punish.html.

07-21
47:25

Part 6: The Injustice & Violence of Lockdown

Part 6 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-6-injustice-and.html.

07-18
49:36

Part 5: Old Age & Old Truths Revealed by Covid-19

Part 5 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-5-old-age-old.html.

07-17
45:23

Part 4: Exeunt Ventilators, Enter Foucault

Part 4 of the Covid Lectures: Dodgy Science, Woeful Ethics with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture here https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-4-exeunt.html

07-16
53:50

Part 3: What is a pandemic?

The metaphysics and psychology of an epidemic and the deep confusion of the WHO about the science of pandemics by mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture on https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-3-what-is-pandemic.html

07-15
42:30

Part 2: What the Imperial College Report said.

Slicing through the epidemiological report that sent the world into lockdown with mathematician and lawyer, Suranya Aiyar. Read the lecture on https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-2-what-imperial.html.

07-14
47:46

Part 1: What is epidemiology?

A fierce critique of everything Covid, starting here with some basics that everyone should know about epidemiology.  Read the transcript on https://covidlectures.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-lectures-part-1-what-is.html. 

07-13
20:23

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