Zeynep Tufekci

It often means lower quality, more errors and more cover-ups.

Officials should have told us what they knew, or at least leveled with us about what they didn’t know.

If we don’t test for H5N1, we won’t find it.

It all started with a single FOIA request.

They want your data, too.

An exemption to a mask ban for medical reasons may soon be eliminated in the state.

Is this what a police state looks like?

It took a pair of alert veterinarians to tell the world about H5N1 in cows.

Zeynep Tufekci studied the U.S. response to Covid. Now she’s concerned about the nation’s response to bird flu.

“There’s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1.”

A recent statement rattled researchers and shocked communities of long Covid patients.

What else is life, but building good associations to chase away the bad?

Cows and dairy workers should be tested now, and vaccine production needs to gear up quickly.

Commercial aviation remains miraculously safe, far more so than all the alternative ways of traveling.

Kensington Palace is just the latest institution to discover that lying to the public will make people suspicious.

Cancer complicates the image of perfection that was projected on her, and never for her benefit.

Boeing and United still have work to do to restore trust.

Parents should be held responsible if they provide a gun to their deeply troubled child.

The scandal is another blatant display of royal double standards.

It will take more than Jan. 6 to convince those voters who are still skeptical.

The escaped owl embodied a city’s dreams to fly free and defy the odds.

After four long years, there’s reason to hope that the condition will get the attention that it and the many who suffer from it deserve.

This is a dangerous situation — and not just for the willfully unvaccinated.

New evidence suggests a company plagued by shoddy quality control.

The big platforms still won’t support meaningful transparency to help understand the real harms they cause.

Instead of scapegoating social media, start regulating it.

Authoritarian leaders project qualities that many voters — not just Trump voters — admire.

The Japan Airlines and Alaska Airlines incidents could have been much worse.

Blaming social media for all kinds of social ills is more convenient for politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation.

Default settings on devices allow the tech industry to keep collecting and using data as it wants.

Many cannot forget the false or exaggerated claims that led to the Iraq war.

Political calculations should not keep others from joining Narges Mohammadi of Iran.

There are many causes for concern at the mud-drenched gathering, but human nature isn’t one of them.

But not enough is being done to stop it.

Too few schools have used Covid relief funds to improve air quality properly.

Transparency is how to fight misinformation.

Times columnists chose the TV shows, movies, books and songs that capture the country as they see it.

Lab safety failures have been a continual danger, with too little being done.

A respected science organization says its review of studies about respiratory viruses was misinterpreted to incorrectly claim masks were useless.

Bird flu has spread widely among animals. Unless we act now, it soon could do the same among humans.

Britain’s most revered institution plays ball with one of its most revolting institutions, even if family members are hurt.

The recent meltdown was avoidable, but it would have cost the company.

A.I. can be a learning tool for schools with enough teachers and resources to use it well.

Give good health to anyone, anywhere, whether they can pay or not.

Elon Musk is not the worst thing about Twitter.

Long Covid brought attention to M.E./C.F.S., a long-ignored illness whose sufferers are too sick to accelerate research by making trouble the way AIDS activists once did.

Even a billion-dollar verdict won’t stop the lies.

These updated vaccines are more protective and could fight future variants and help stave off long Covid.

A major new approach is needed to solve many postviral conditions.

The world needs to let the Egyptians know it hasn’t forgotten how it once admired those courageous young people who dared to dream of a better future.

I thought that an unprecedented crowd would lead to policy change. What happened?

In a post-Roe America, women will bear the costs of letting data collection undermine our liberty.

The under-5 Covid vaccine should be approved.

Once again, a dysfunctional health care system has hindered our pandemic response.

Different choices that were available and plausible could have been made at several crucial turning points.

The government’s haphazard and disorganized response to Omicron doesn’t bode well.

Whatever the Omicron variant may mean for the young, it’s already clear that it can be deadly for the old.

South Africa gave the world an early warning. Decisive action on containment and surveillance could help us control it.

We need to learn the right lessons from our missteps.

Science can find a cure for our diseases but not for our societal ills.