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17 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Scott Atlas is a very good reason to boot the Hoover Institution off the Stanford campus and sever any affiliation between it and the university forevermore, if another very good reason were needed.
I’m no enemy of academic freedom, but I am an enemy of academic fraud. The Hoover Institution uses Stanford’s reputation to launder its terrible, often corrupt scholarship and low intellectual standards into the highest levels of American society and government.
And this fraud has contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and countless others around the world. It should end.
Remember that the Hoover Institution has contributed not only Scott Atlas but Richard Epstein to framing the administration’s catastrophic Covid-19 response that has left nearly 220k Americans dead with a new wave on the way.

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