Our Publications
Digging deeper on health and medicine is time-consuming. Our publications come with a lot of background research and are always accompanied by plenty of resources.
We prefer to publish in open access, where our content is free for everyone to read, on this website and in our Substack page. Our license allows for re-publishing, under the condition that you first get in touch with us.
At times, we also work as paid contributors to other platforms and outlets.
As we love to join collaborative projects, we publish also with other investigative journalists and academics, in the framework of collective publications.
February 2024 We contributed with an original piece (“Lessons from Covid coverage: the media can drive you crazy”) to the essay “Sans diversité de vue, pas de journalisme” (Without a multiplicity of perspectives, there is no journalism), published in French by Editions Favre. The book was coordinated by Myret Zaki. (Available here as a PDF file)
8 December 2021 Publication of Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari for The BMJ: “Covid-19: Whatever happened to the Novavax vaccine?”. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2965.
23 November 2021 Open access publication (3 episodes with a map): “Function creep in pandemic mode: the strange case of the Covid-19 certificates”. Investigation conducted with Dutch investigative journalist Jannes van Roermund. Re-Check and Follow The Money.
13 July 2021 Publication of Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari for The BMJ: “Donuts, drugs, booze, and guns: what governments are offering people to take covid-19 vaccines”. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1737.
11 June 2021 Open access publication: “Democracy in pandemic mode: the strange case of the COVID certificate”. Available in English, French and German. Re-Check.
10 March 2021 Serena Tinari investigation for The BMJ “The EMA covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability”. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n627.
19 February 2021 Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari have published in English, French and German an analysis and commentary on the group of experts that is supposed to inform Swiss decision-makers about the scientific evidence in the coronavirus crisis: “Science in Pandemic Mode: The Strange Case of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force”. Re-Check.
2 December 2020 Catherine Riva published with Jean-Pierre Spinosa the article “Has the HPV vaccine approval ushered in an era of over-prevention?” in the Journal of Scientific Practice and Integrity (JosPI). doi: 10.35122/001c.18180.
20 November 2020 The Guide Investigating Health & Medicine, commissioned to Re-Check by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) has been published.
22 April 2021 Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari have published in English, French, German and Italian an analysis and commentary of the Swiss media’s coverage of the COVID-19 crisis: “Journalism in pandemic mode: embedded, complacent and unable to inform democratic debate”. Re-Check.
10 December 2018 Publication by biomedical journal BMJ-EBM of “Lessons learnt on transparency, scientific process and publication ethics. The short story of a long journey to get into the public domain unpublished data, methodological flaws and bias of the Cochrane HPV vaccines review”, by Catherine Riva, Jean-Pierre Spinosa and Serena Tinari.
20-22 August 2018 Poster Mapping Ghost Management in Medical Research and Public Health by Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari. Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference #PODC2018, Copenhagen (DK). Published by BMJ-EBM as Mapping ghost management in medical research and public health. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111070.105.
