As the pandemic continues its global arc, the Chinese Communist Party is desperately trying to spin the narrative and hide its malfeasance. Jim Geraghty, writing in National Review, provides a detailed time-line of the corrupt oligarchy’s duplicity – on which the party’s emphatic insistence that human transmission was unproven is just one sorry example.
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.
