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Interview with Richard Epstein, the NYU law professor behind the contrarian coronavirus theory that informed the Trump administration

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  1. post_below
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    The thing I find amazing (given this guy has a lot of experience in public discourse) is how quickly he devolves into defensive ad hominem after fairly gentle questions... However it does not...

    The thing I find amazing (given this guy has a lot of experience in public discourse) is how quickly he devolves into defensive ad hominem after fairly gentle questions...

    What it shows is that you are a complete intellectual amateur. Period.
    You just don’t know anything about anything. You’re a journalist. Would you like to compare your résumé to mine?

    However it does not amaze me that the current administration approves of his rhetoric, the EQ level is about right.

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  2. spit-evil-olive-tips
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    Found this interesting because it's a smart interview of someone saying very, very dumb things.

    Epstein, a professor at New York University School of Law, published the article on the Web site of the Hoover Institution, on March 16th. In it, he questioned the World Health Organization’s decision to declare the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, said that “public officials have gone overboard,” and suggested that about five hundred people would die from covid-19 in the U.S. Epstein later updated his estimate to five thousand, saying that the previous number had been an error.

    Found this interesting because it's a smart interview of someone saying very, very dumb things.

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