David Robertson explores herd immunity and how it could have guided governments in a measured, more effective and less disruptive pandemic response from the outset. In StatNews, Robertson reviews the eruption of the strange obsession to prevent all Covid-19 infections and then only recognize vaccine immunity.
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.
