Tag: coronavirus
The Bioethicist Pandemic
The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation.
Time to Make Fossil Fuel Industries “Pay”?
Authoritarian central planning never works and it wouldn’t “save the planet.” It would just make us all less prosperous and free.
“Follow the Science”? Free Webinar, May 16, on Scientism and Society
In discussions of the virus, you probably have noticed the prominent use of strangely religious-sounding pleas — “Follow the science!” “Listen to the scientists!”
Robert J. Marks: Coronavirus and the “Primacy of Information”
This is the kind of insight that halts you in your tracks: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.”
Coronavirus Response: Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Design in Nature and Medical Science
One might object that if our immune system were intelligently designed, it would be utterly immune to all pathogens.