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I did an engaging interview with Ginny Gentles about An Abundance of Caution, and we touched on one of the reasons why schools remained closed for so long after most of society had opened: children didn't have advocates.

Currently reading David Zweig's An Abundance of Caution, about the pandemic response. Fascinating, disturbing, and essential reading for anyone who wants insights into how our rulers got the response so wrong--and into how we can do better next time, whether next time is another

In late June of 2020, when I took this picture of our neighborhood park, most European schools and other congregate settings for children had been reopened, many without masking. Yet much of the U.S. lagged a long time after. Why? I asked David Zweig, who has receipts.

This was originally a mostly-paywalled episode of The Fifth Column 🖐, but paying subscribers wanted to be able to share it more widely. So, here! wethefifth.com/p/unlocked-dav…

Great to see Kelley K Justin Hart and PoIiMath getting recognition! During the pandemic I often trusted them and a few other Team Reality folks, because they earned it, more than the authorities. Kelley in particular helped me a lot with CDC data acquisition for my book

Grateful to Noam Blum for an excellent review of An Abundance of Caution. He succinctly captures a critical message from the book here—don’t accept the “we don’t know” narrative:

During an excellent New Rules on hypocrisy and tribalism in America, what a great surprise to see An Abundance of Caution mentioned! Thanks Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher for the shout out! Read the book for the untold story of the baldly unscientific behavior of our expert class.

On my way home today I was listening to David Zweig talk about the absurdity of closing schools for millions of healthy children for months & I got incredibly angry all over again. I haven’t read his book yet (I’m not sure my blood pressure can handle it) but I probably should.

The tour continues! So grateful to Shveta Raju for hosting a great event and for meeting such good people. Now off to Nashville!

“In every epidemiological decision there are philosophical decisions that go along with it”—Benedict Beckeld This is a fundamental truth noted by Beckeld—a brilliant philosopher I’ve had the good fortune of speaking with—that our “experts” and politicians pretended was untrue.

This is a really well constructed interview I did with Jan Jekielek, with various news clippings interspersed in the video.

I will gladly debate Taylor about school closures. She has me blocked so if anyone is in touch with her, please let her know.

Here’s the thing this professor doesn’t understand: our intuitions are often wrong, and that’s particularly true with medicine. “Just makes sense, ya know” is not valid science. Read my book to learn why you’re mistaken about the effect of school mask mandates.

I'm on a bit of an epistemology kick and I have to recommend David Zweig's An Abundance of Caution for how he weaves into his book in these questions of "when doing science, how and when do we actually know things are true?" x.com/davidzweig/sta…

You call Martin Kulldorff a “wild card,” which strikes me as pretty condescending. Your post was also mostly laudatory except for saying he’s veered to “ideological stances.” What is your evidence for that claim? And for him being a wild card? What does that even mean?

Ok American Academy of Pediatrics: what evidence is there that Cody Meissner and Martin Kulldorff are anti-vaccine? This tweet, from our nation’s top pediatric org, exemplifies the arrogant, tribal, defamatory rhetoric that sadly has destroyed trust in so many elite American institutions.