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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      1. This @IChotiner interview -- really a disembowlment -- of coronavirus contrarian Richard A. Epstein is, quite justifiably, getting a lot of attention. I wanted to give some historical context to explain Epstein's dingbat theories.https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      3. Epstein is of course a familiar type: a know-it-all law contrarian who thinks he knows better than the experts (he's also a climate change minimizer). His contrarianism is all the more dangerous because it has roots in an influential intellectual tradition, Austrian economics

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      4. Epstein doesn't doubt mainstream epidemiology -- he has his own alternative biology based on the idea (derived from theoretical speculation & not empirical observation) that all viruses evolve to get less virulent over time. This idea is comforting but also false.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      5. You might ask yourself, "how the hell does a law professor have the nerve to have his own alternative theory of viral evolution?" It's in large part because Epstein's approach to policy & science derives from the libertarian social theorist F.A. Hayek.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      6. Austrian economics, in the mold of Hayek & von Mises, has an extreme anti-empirical bias (regarding truth as a matter more of logic than evidence). This gave Hayek, the confidence to indulge in extreme speculation, as in his attempts to ground economics in Darwinian biology

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      7. Social Darwinism is of course old hat. What made Hayek's late works (Law, Legislation and Liberty etc) interesting was his attempt to revive ideas of Lamarck about inheritability of acquired traits, which Hayek thought offered a model for social evolution.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      8. Hayek's interest in Lamarck shouldn't be confused with the actual neo-Lamarckian revival in biology (based on evidence that trauma can leave lasting marks on genes that are passed on). Rather, Hayek used Lamarck as a licence for speculative just-so stories.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      9. Hayek's interest in reviving Lamarck was shared by others on the right in 1960s/1970s (the conservative historian John Lukacs, the science fiction writer Gene Wolfe). I think Lamarck appeal is he allows for human will and direction in evolution (as against Darwinian chance).

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      10. Epstein's belief that viruses evolve quickly and in benign direction derives from the crackpot neo-Lamarckism and social Darwinism he acquired from Hayek. It's what he meant when he said he's offering the "standard economic-evolutionary theory out of Darwin."

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      11. It's also what Epstein meant when he said, "I’m not an empiricist." In the Austrian tradition, he believes theoretical approach of Hayek has more explanatory power than mere evidence-based models of epidemiologists.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

      12. Epstein is not just a lone crackpot whose paper got widely read in GOP circles. Epstein has had an impact because he's squarely in influential overlapping intellectual networks: Austrian economics, Chicago economics, Federalist Society, Hoover Institution, etc.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

          13. More thoughts on Epstein's intellectual network here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-trump-coronavirus-crackpot/ …

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020

          14. Final point: we need a reckoning not just with Epstein but all the institutions that made Epstein possible. They claim to serve the public interest but have helped deranged pseudoscience spread (and not just in this pandemic).

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        1. Charles Wheeler‏ @tweetcmw 30 Mar 2020
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          'We create our own reality' 🤨

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        2. Steffen Christensen‏ @Wikisteff 30 Mar 2020
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          Man. It's like the conspiracy theory of a Koch-funded network of right-wing libertarian institutions that provide a sort of intellectual echo chamber of conservative thought of public life and its institutions is literally a true fact.

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        3. mark franklin rossow‏ @rossow_mark 30 Mar 2020
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          further reading Rooted in the Confederacy https://truthout.org/articles/misinforming-the-majority-a-deliberate-strategy-of-right-wing-libertarians/ …

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        1. mark franklin rossow‏ @rossow_mark 30 Mar 2020
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          ...all part of the Koch Brothers' plan re-booting the Confederacy https://truthout.org/articles/misinforming-the-majority-a-deliberate-strategy-of-right-wing-libertarians/ …

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        1. Centrist Centralizing in Central Ohio‏ @EndTax 1 Apr 2020
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          Centrist Centralizing in Central Ohio Retweeted Centrist Centralizing in Central Ohio

          https://twitter.com/EndTax/status/1244646064956768256?s=20 …

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          Centrist Centralizing in Central Ohio @EndTax
          Which Epstein has been more dangerous? “You just don’t know anything about anything. You’re a journalist. Would you like to compare your résumé to mine?” @NNTaleb calls out this type of guy: I-Y-I: Intellectual Yet Idiot. @secupp @nils_gilman #WeAreTheCure #PhysicalDistancing https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1244401479949025280 …
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