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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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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Finally, an Epstein who did kill himself.
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^^^^^^^^^^^ Underrated tweet.
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"kooky", "crank", "crackpot" are misleading terms for an intellectual milieu that has (mis)informed government policy for decades
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