Richard A. Epstein, the influential coronavirus contrarian, is the second worst person with that surname, but he's making a bid for the top spot. Chotiner's interview with him is, as one would expect, an intellectual slaughter.https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1244401479949025280 …
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"Law and economics": right-wing law professors, with little expertise in economics, using jargon from that discipline to provide arguments for Republican judges to justify politicized decisions. It's been a highly successful grift & not surprising its shaping coronavirus policy
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Fanatics always double down, until catastrophic failure. In science, it doesn’t matter how many letters follow your name, if one is blinded by ideological, religious or political considerations: I’ve seen this before. Always disappointing, but such things happen. Look forward.
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“The market would solve discrimination” he said adter surveying Jim Crow south. And then his whole economic theory rests on non-ironically saying that “the law, in its infinite wisdom, prevents both the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges” and academia loved it!!
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Or Title IX
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Or the FDA
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