Interview: Did Scientists and the Media Get Covid All Wrong?

How Our Politics Failed during the COVID Pandemic: An Interview with Stephen Macedo

There was a fundamental failure of toleration for alternative points of view. I think some of it might be explained by the fact that it was a pandemic. For public health guidance to be effective, people have to comply. To that I would say fair enough, but it’s also equally important—or more important—to have confidence that the policies are sound. People complying en masse with unsound policies won’t do us a whole lot of good. That’s what open de

Interview: Did Scientists and the Media Get Covid All Wrong?

(Undark) – In a provocative new book, political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee call for a pandemic reckoning. In their forthcoming book, “In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us,” they argue that many pandemic-era policies were not grounded in evidence and were undertaken without properly weighing their potential to cause harm. Educated elites, in particular, “exercised much power under Covid and made some serious mistakes,” inclu…