Tom Chivers

Tom Chivers is a science writer. His second book, How to Read Numbers, is out now.

Is a vaccine trade war brewing?

27 Jan 2021

Latest infections data may be less gloomy than the headlines

21 Jan 2021

What Covid tests can we trust?

20 Jan 2021

What explains the Germany Covid surge?

14 Jan 2021

Will schools be open by summer?

13 Jan 2021

Amid Covid crisis we can’t wait for perfect data

06 Jan 2021

Boris Johnson fails the marshmallow test

04 Jan 2021

What’s the real cost of sending kids back to school?

30 Dec 2020

The nerds who saw the dangers of Covid

30 Dec 2020

Did anyone predict coronavirus?

28 Dec 2020

How dangerous is the Covid mutation?

21 Dec 2020

Unconscious Bias Training is an empty PR drill

16 Dec 2020

The perils of liberals politicising science

15 Dec 2020

Your Christmas gifts are worth less than you think

11 Dec 2020

How the mob can silence you

08 Dec 2020

Healthcare workers will be the first piece of the vaccine jigsaw

03 Dec 2020

DeepMind’s superhuman intelligence

01 Dec 2020

I am utterly confused about the Oxford vaccine

26 Nov 2020

Why the Oxford vaccine is different

24 Nov 2020

Why we should be confident in the Oxford vaccine

19 Nov 2020

Should Big Pharma profit from Covid?

17 Nov 2020

Are we overly worried about anti-vaxxers?

12 Nov 2020

Yes, the vaccine is really on its way

10 Nov 2020

What’s your vote really worth?

03 Nov 2020

The real reason flu cases are falling

30 Oct 2020

It pays to believe obviously untrue things

28 Oct 2020

Maybe the US travel ban wasn’t stupid

23 Oct 2020

Will a vaccine stop Covid?

21 Oct 2020

Will this new ‘lockdown’ make any difference?

15 Oct 2020

The German coronavirus mystery

14 Oct 2020

Did the Government waste £161m in Moonshot money?

08 Oct 2020

Why does Trump get to choose if Regeneron works?

03 Oct 2020

Vitamin D is no silver bullet

02 Oct 2020

Has Covid become less dangerous?

30 Sep 2020

How risky are the human challenge trials?

24 Sep 2020

Is this the second wave?

22 Sep 2020

If your child has the sniffles, is it Covid or a cold?

17 Sep 2020

Why everyone is stupid except me

16 Sep 2020

The paranoid style in vaccine science

11 Sep 2020

Why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing

09 Sep 2020

Let’s all meet up in the year 3000

02 Sep 2020

A lesson in statistics… for the FDA

27 Aug 2020

Why is middle age so depressing?

26 Aug 2020

Jeremy Farrar is right: axing Public Health England is foolish

19 Aug 2020

What worms can teach us about the AI apocalypse

19 Aug 2020

Will there be a second wave of coronavirus?

07 Aug 2020

Why your negative antibody test might be wrong

04 Aug 2020

From Covid to crime: how media hype distorts risk

28 Jul 2020

Covid could become the new common cold

21 Jul 2020

Forget Mars, why aren’t we going to Titan?

16 Jul 2020

Is there really a Covid mental health crisis?

14 Jul 2020

Finally! A way to analyse NHS data from 17 million people

09 Jul 2020

Can you really teach kids not to be racist?

07 Jul 2020

I’m on the Oxford vaccine trial — here’s what it’s like

02 Jul 2020

The nerd’s guide to football

30 Jun 2020

Slate Star Codex must remain anonymous

24 Jun 2020

We all need a Devil to play Advocate

23 Jun 2020

Doctors’ orders: Re-open the schools!

18 Jun 2020

What’s the point of contact tracing?

16 Jun 2020

Why is the Government U-turning on masks?

12 Jun 2020

Will the BLM protests cause a Covid spike?

09 Jun 2020

Did Dominic Cummings cause a lockdown breakdown?

03 Jun 2020

Will there be a second Covid wave?

02 Jun 2020

Another day, another misleading Corona study!

29 May 2020

Do any Covid-19 ‘cures’ actually work?

26 May 2020

How much difference would an earlier shutdown have made?

21 May 2020

Is it safe to reopen schools?

19 May 2020

Does remdesivir treat Covid-19?

14 May 2020

We should be very wary of the R value

12 May 2020

I told you so! 100,000 tests was a foolish target

06 May 2020

Is the lockdown doing more harm than good?

05 May 2020

Stop obsessing over the 100,000 test target

30 Apr 2020

When will we get the Covid-19 vaccine?

28 Apr 2020

Beware of Covid confimation bias

23 Apr 2020

Did anyone predict coronavirus?

22 Apr 2020

Why did the New York Times bury its own Covid story?

16 Apr 2020

Don’t put too much faith in Covid-19 metrics

14 Apr 2020

Beware unchecked scientific theories about Covid

09 Apr 2020

How far away are ‘immunity passports’?

07 Apr 2020

A glimpse inside a virus-testing laboratory

02 Apr 2020

How likely are you to die of coronavirus?

01 Apr 2020

Half the country infected? I doubt it

25 Mar 2020

Would you take a coronavirus risk?

24 Mar 2020

How does the UK compare to the rest of the world on handling Covid-19?

20 Mar 2020

Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

17 Mar 2020

Can we build a herd immunity to Covid-19?

13 Mar 2020

Memo to Donald Trump: travel bans don’t work

12 Mar 2020

Coronavirus is the wake-up call we need

10 Mar 2020

What are the odds a sneeze will give you coronavirus?

05 Mar 2020

In praise of uncynical children’s books

05 Mar 2020

Stop looking for coronavirus ‘super-spreaders’

03 Mar 2020

Does the BBC know astrology isn’t real?

28 Feb 2020

Are economists really this stupid?

26 Feb 2020

Time for big tech to share data about themselves

19 Feb 2020

‘Eugenics is possible’ is not the same as ‘eugenics is good’

18 Feb 2020

Got to hand it to him, Boris is good on cycling

12 Feb 2020

How daughters turn fathers into feminists

11 Feb 2020

Geek tip: if it doesn’t say “Registered Report,” don’t trust it

06 Feb 2020

Are mental health apps totally useless?

05 Feb 2020

Social media broadens our opinions? Sorry, don’t believe it

29 Jan 2020