The protests that started with the revocation of the diploma of the Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) İmamoğlu and his detention continue on the 4th day of his detention. Hundreds of ...

that would mean two out of the last four or five pandemics were caused by our own scientific mishaps. Let’s not make a third. Zeynep Tufekci writes a column for the New York Times.

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was ...