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Professor @DukeGSF and Fellow @NatlHumanities. I write about food, farming, and sex. Our foremost theorist of bear life. http://bearistotle.substack.com 

Durham, NC
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    bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

    Y'all are just catching up on Richard Epstein, huh? Epstein wrote a 1988 law review article arguing that employers should be able to fire HIV-positive workers even if they posed no health risks and the employer knew they posed no health risks.

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      2. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        Read it for yourself: Epstein, Richard A. "AIDS, Testing and the Workplace." U. Chi. Legal F. (1988): 33 - 56. It's probably pay-walled.

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      3. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        This guy has been monumentally wrong on infectious disease and public health for DECADES but he is, of course, a regular lurking presence on the New York Times Op-Ed page and people couldn't wait to suck up his ignorant COVID-19 take.

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      4. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        As @DavidAstinWalsh and I have mentioned before, and as Melinda Cooper covers extensively, the HIV/AIDS takes of nearly everyone associated with the Chicago School are just appalling.

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      5. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        Their general argument was that any government action that "lowered the costs" for PWAs would constitute a moral hazard, where the gov't would be incentivizing the underlying "bad" behavior that carried risk. IOW reducing pain and suffering to PWAs would cause more infections.

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      6. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        This extended to frank sexual education and efforts to promote condom use, which they contended endorsed promiscuity. Again, their argument was that gov't policy to encourage condom use would lead to more infections.

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      7. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        Just like with Epstein in his conversation with @IChotiner, they claimed this was a "theoretical" model and they evinced little interest in actual empirical evidence to the contrary from epidemiologists and public health scholars.

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      8. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        And, indeed, the contrary of their view was *empirically* correct: Encouraging condom use was the most singularly effective way to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.

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      9. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        Thus, they were not only arguing an immoral position, and not only were they driven to it by the rigid application of an abstract libertarian dogma, but it required they ignore, and perhaps suppress, contrary empirical evidence.

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      10. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        This is a perfect illustration of what Eve Sedgwick--one of those wretched pomos who dismisses science and reality unlike Epstein and his ilk--wrote about as the privilege of ignorance in Epistemology of the Closet.

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      11. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        That is, when you're rich and powerful, you can afford to be ignorant and you can be sure you won't be held accountable for your ignorance. And that, friends, is the story of the career of one Richard A. Epstein.

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      12. bearistotle‏ @gnrosenberg 30 Mar 2020

        Since this appears to be going viral, please feel free to read my own COVID-19 take, substantially less hot than Epstein's and grounded in my field of expertise, published yesterday in the Washington Post.https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/29/government-must-pay-people-stay-home/ …

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