Geert Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve…
Tag: covid 19
What Is Parasite Stress? Is This Strange Phenomenon Altering Our Politics? Did It Lead To World War 2?
The concept of parasite stress is one that has been studied by my guest Dr Randy Thornhill for decades – it’s the idea that the more infectious disease that is prevalent in a country, the more right-wing and collectivist a population is. With a very strong correlation. With that in mind, I was…
Chatter #200 – Dr Randy Thornhill: Parasite Stress And How Disease Shapes Our Politics
Covid has caused massive upheaval and disruption around the world, but something I had not given a lot of thought to was the idea that disease shapes our political leanings. The concept of parasite stress is one that has been studied by my guest Dr Randy Thornhill for decades – it’s the idea…
Chatter #199 – Professor Paul Frijters: Lockdowns, Science, And The Great Covid Panic
A lot of the discussion about an inquiry into the covid response has been, in my view, poorly framed. There are massive lessons to be learned from this pandemic, but I believe that a huge segment of this is being ignored – what the cost of lockdowns will be and has already been….
The Government Are Criminally Unprepared For A Winter Second Wave
There is one thing that I am sure that almost every single person in this country can agree on. When, in March and April, we were locked down during the first wave of covid-19, there were very few people who expected that by the time that winter rolled around, we would be experiencing…
