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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Conservative intellectuals (an oxymoron) have spent years indignantly denying that they harbor some categorical distrust of science. Trump, as he so often does, dispenses with the evasions and plausible deniability and blurts out the actual belief. “He’ll listen to the scientists,” Trump sneered of his opponent. “If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now that would have a country that would be in a massive depression … People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong.”
Trump’s irritation with public-health experts, and their tedious warnings that the pandemic must be curtailed, is long-standing. In August, the Washington Post reported that Trump had “encouraged his White House advisers to find a new doctor who would argue an alternative point of view from Birx and Fauci, with whom the president has grown increasingly annoyed for public comments that he believes contradict his own assertions that the virus’s threat is receding.” The advisers “sought a doctor with Ivy League or top university credentials who could make the case on television that the virus is a fading danger.” They settled on Scott Atlas.
Atlas is a radiologist, not an epidemiologist, and possesses essentially no expertise relevant to a pandemic. What he has, instead, is a medical credential — trust him, he’s a doctor — which he uses to ward off expertise. Atlas spent years in the right-wing think-tank world cranking out standard-issue doggerel about the glories of free-market health care and the dangers of doing anything to cover the uninsured.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...kook-in-charge-of-the-coronavirus/ar-BB1aduEW
Trump’s irritation with public-health experts, and their tedious warnings that the pandemic must be curtailed, is long-standing. In August, the Washington Post reported that Trump had “encouraged his White House advisers to find a new doctor who would argue an alternative point of view from Birx and Fauci, with whom the president has grown increasingly annoyed for public comments that he believes contradict his own assertions that the virus’s threat is receding.” The advisers “sought a doctor with Ivy League or top university credentials who could make the case on television that the virus is a fading danger.” They settled on Scott Atlas.
Atlas is a radiologist, not an epidemiologist, and possesses essentially no expertise relevant to a pandemic. What he has, instead, is a medical credential — trust him, he’s a doctor — which he uses to ward off expertise. Atlas spent years in the right-wing think-tank world cranking out standard-issue doggerel about the glories of free-market health care and the dangers of doing anything to cover the uninsured.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...kook-in-charge-of-the-coronavirus/ar-BB1aduEW
