Thu Apr 23, 2020, 04:55 PM

How is Richard Epstein still able to publish articles that aren't laughed into oblivion?

Below is a very interesting look back at the entire saga of NYU/Hoover Institute’s Richard Epstein weighing in on COVID19.

What is worse than his original horrendous writing is the fact that he and/or others at Hoover have tried diligently to hide just how pathetically bad his own original model was.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200421/15301544347/famed-law-professor-richard-epsteins-ever-changing-claims-about-how-many-people-will-die-covid-19.shtml

I also include for your reading pleasure the brilliant takedown of Richard Epstein by New Yorker reporter Isaac Chotiner

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration

As well as the now HIGHLY edited Hoover article by Epstein

https://www.hoover.org/research/coronavirus-pandemic

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How is Richard Epstein still able to publish articles that aren't laughed into oblivion? (Original post)	SiliconValley_Dem	Apr 2020	OP
👀	underpants	Apr 2020	#1
Yes. It is brilliant how dumb this guy is and he could tell part way through	SiliconValley_Dem	Apr 2020	#2

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Thu Apr 23, 2020, 04:59 PM

underpants (174,453 posts)

1. 👀

I was reading the New Yorker piece the other day. Marking to pick it back up

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Thu Apr 23, 2020, 05:12 PM

SiliconValley_Dem (1,656 posts)

2. Yes. It is brilliant how dumb this guy is and he could tell part way through

The interview he was coming off as a clueless moron so then he doubled down in trying to defend what a smart guy he is and came off looking even more ridiculous.

Even with all that, the Hoover Institute published a follow up article from Epstein where he tried to argue that since the lockdowns are working we need to end the lockdowns.

https://www.hoover.org/research/grim-costs-total-lockdowns

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