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A little known fact about Scott Atlas, Trump& #39;s top COVID adviser, is that besides having no credentials in public health or epidemiology, he works for a creationist think tank.
The group, called the Hoover Institution, is located on the campus of Stanford University. Besides spreading conservative economics, it has been churning out convoluted anti-evolution nonsense for years.
Here& #39;s a Hoover page featuring Atlas discussing Obamacare that further downward touts a discussion about the supposed "mathematical challenges" of macroevolutionary theory. https://www.hoover.org/publications/daily-report/monday-july-22-2019">https://www.hoover.org/publicati...
Here& #39;s Hoover in 2005 discussing "Monkey Business: Evolution and Intelligent Design" https://www.hoover.org/research/monkey-business-evolution-and-intelligent-design">https://www.hoover.org/research/...
Here& #39;s a 2001 discussion about evolution and religion featuring a staffer for the Discovery Institute, the top Christian right creationist group https://www.hoover.org/research/whose-image-evolution-and-spirituality">https://www.hoover.org/research/...
Here& #39;s another 2001 discussion attacking "Darwinism" explicitly promoting "intelligent design" in conjunction with the Discovery Institute https://www.hoover.org/research/darwin-under-microscope-questioning-darwinism">https://www.hoover.org/research/...
In 2019, Hoover gave a glowing interview to creationist advocate David Berlinski, author of "The Deniable Darwin”. https://www.hoover.org/research/uncommon-knowledge-david-berlinski-deniable-darwin-0">https://www.hoover.org/research/...
This was not the first time that Hoover had promoted Berlinski, however. They featured him in 2014 as well https://www.hoover.org/research/david-berlinski-science-philosophy-and-society">https://www.hoover.org/research/...
In 2007, Hoover fellow Peter Robinson attempted to debate the late atheist Christopher Hitchens by advocating for the idea that atheism encourages immorality https://www.hoover.org/research/hitchens-morals-atheist">https://www.hoover.org/research/...
Promoting creationist flimflam has been a longtime project for Robinson and Hoover. Here is a 1998 piece that Hoover published from Robinson on the topic https://www.hoover.org/research/faith-and-reason-together-again">https://www.hoover.org/research/...
Here& #39;s a 2016 piece from another Hoover author warning of "The Dangerous Rise Of Scientism." It& #39;s a much smarter version of the faulty response to SARS2 that Atlas is advocating today https://www.hoover.org/research/dangerous-rise-scientism">https://www.hoover.org/research/...
It& #39;s unclear if Atlas is a creationist but given his long affiliation with a group that advocates for "intelligent design," it is an urgent public matter that he be asked about it. Someone who denies evolution is utterly unfit to supervise the response to a pandemic. /end
PostScripts: I should add that Hoover is also the home of Richard Epstein, the lawyer who badly screwed up the Trump admin& #39;s initial SARS2 response and was shredded by @IChotiner https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration">https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-an...
