Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw American funding from the WHO has triggered outrage from the usual quarters. Yet it’s known that the WHO initially ignored the advice of international experts, kow-towed to Beijing and published falsehoods. The editors of National Review say the U.S. needs to demand transparency about WHO’s dealings with China.
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.


