The reactions to Isaac Chotiner's interview Richard Epstein. This picks up our ongoing conversation about how conservative movement financing subsidizes and undermines the discourse (in this case through the Hoover Institution).
We'll start off with Hizoy's detailed take-down.
Richard Epstein, with the same genius for self-preservation that led him to publish his views on how we should respond to a pandemic despite his lack of expertise, has agreed to be interviewed by Isaac Chotiner.— hilzoy (@hilzoy) March 30, 2020
The results are what you'd expect. https://t.co/uE005TLsk3
14/ Really. Biologists somehow overlooked the evolutionary component?— hilzoy (@hilzoy) March 30, 2020
Sort of the way economic modelers so often overlook supply and demand? And geologists forget to take account of tectonic drift? Seriously?
What an incredible interview. https://t.co/CjKtOG0geW I'm not going to characterize it beyond that. Recommended. A lot.— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/junkcharts/status/1244667520931500035?s=20One consequence of a fact-free presidency is that the entire evidence-based world lines up against it. That tempts learned people of a contrarian bent to conclude "must be wrong." The more resistance they get, the more certain they feel. Watch it play out. https://t.co/CjKtOG0geW— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 30, 2020
Always good when things take this turn: "You just don’t know anything about anything. You’re a journalist. Would you like to compare your résumé to mine?" https://t.co/j2Ufhbk2Rs via @NewYorker— Chris Shea (@cshea4) March 30, 2020
“I’m happy to say” https://t.co/ZQ0rGheyIv— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 30, 2020
"I’ve worked on evolutionary theory for forty years in its relationship to law." https://t.co/bBqV40ZUBt via @NewYorker— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 30, 2020
By any rational standard this should be the epitaph or perhaps the death warrant for a generation of law and economics types. (And yes, I know there are more subtle, intelligent version of it. But a lot of it is this.) pic.twitter.com/Bq28VNa5fR— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 30, 2020
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