Long-COVID vs Collateral-COVID

Mike Hulme | 19/10/2020

The science journal Nature ran an editorial on 8 October under the title, “Let patients help define long-lasting COVID symptoms”. In my short response to this editorial, I argue that public policy which considers only COVID mortality and COVID-morbidity...

Why is the academic left silent about the new authoritarianism?

Mike Hulme | 08/10/2020

This is a question recently asked by my colleague Dragos Simandan of Brock University, Ontario. In particular he asks, “In my home discipline of human geography I’ve been surprised by the lack of deep criticism (so far!) against the...

COVID-19: The Great Barrington Declaration

Mike Hulme | 06/10/2020

“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.” This Declaration, authored and signed on...

“To question biomedical consensus is not to lack moral accountability”

Mike Hulme | 05/10/2020

Robert Dingwall, professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, argues for an opening out of the public debate about the evidential and normative basis of current UK Government COVID-19 policy. His essay appeared in Times Higher Education on 1...

Some commonsense (at last) on living with Sars-CoV-2

Mike Hulme | 21/09/2020

Amidst the panic and fear, here is a sensible perspective on living with COVID-19 risk, articulated by responsible people who understand the sociology, psychology and statistics of risk. It’s time to listen to these experts rather than epidemiological modellers...

The Finch podcast: What is climate change?

Mike Hulme | 09/09/2020

You can listen here to my podcast with The Finch, a student-based discussion platform run out of the University of Georgia, Athens, which introduces their new podcast series on climate change. I discuss the following quesitons … Is there...

Climate Change [Key Ideas in Geography]

Mike Hulme | 08/09/2020

[Image courtesy Dehlia Hannah] I have just completed the manuscript for a new book titled ‘Climate Change’, which will appear in the spring of 2021 in the Routledge Series of Key Ideas in Geography, edited by Noel Castree &...

WIREs Climate Change celebrates 10 years

Mike Hulme | 10/08/2020

The two professional associations that sponsor Wiley’s WIREs Climate Change – the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG) and the Royal Meteorological Society – recognise the landmark as the journal passes it’s 10 year anniversary. During this period over...

Defending “the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”

Mike Hulme | 24/07/2020

Having just finished reading Dorian Lynsky’s wonderful Ministry of Truth, a biography of George Orwell’s 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty Four, a recent headline from The Times newspaper caught my attention. The Harvard professor of psychology Steven Pinker was accusing...

Fetishising ‘The Number’: How Not To Govern Pandemics, Climate and Biodiversity

Mike Hulme | 09/07/2020

As the pandemic continues to dominate public politics around the world, a single number – the reproduction rate (R) – has become the focus of policy-making and public communication. Keeping R below 1.0 appears to be the primary objective...

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