In the AMAC journal, David Lewis Schaefer evaluates testimony by Anthony Fauci before a U.S. Congressional subcommittee investigating pandemic policy. House Republicans’ dogged work got through Fauci’s reflexive prevarications to uncover juicy details on the virus’s lab-based origins, how social distancing landed randomly at six feet and the damaging impacts of closing schools and mandating vaccines and masks.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.


