This is amazing. Richard Epstein tries to falsify the history of his disastrous foray into epidemiology. This should destroy his career. But since he's a right-winger, it won't
Two related anecdotes. (1) We had an event at CUNY some months ago, in which Epstein insisted that the financial crisis was caused by rules forcing banks to lend to minorities — a totally refuted claim. So epidemiology isn't the only field where he has delusions of competence 2/
(2) The Epstein affair reminds me of that time right-wingers insisted that "privatization" was a left-wing smear — and Cato, which had a long-standing Project on Social Security Privatization, tried to edit old web pages to pretend they never used the word 3/
There must be some intellectually honest conservatives. But the movement's stars include an amazing number of liars and grifters — which I guess ties in with today's column 4/ nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opi…
