As a hard-core member of the progressive, educated elite, I fully subscribed to the efforts to suppress “fake conspiracy theories” about the COVID virus, its origins, and the necessary shutdown of U.S. society, excluding of course essential workers. I read in The New York Times the disdain within the scientific community for “crack” academics who challenged this thinking. And then I read In COVID’s Wake by Princeton professors Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, and recently recommended by President Eisgruber. It was a sobering realization of the dangers of groupthink, class biases, and vested interests to which we are all subject. Next year’s pre-frosh read?
As a hard-core member of the progressive, educated elite, I fully subscribed to the efforts to suppress “fake conspiracy theories” about the COVID virus, its origins, and the necessary shutdown of U.S. society, excluding of course essential workers. I read in The New York Times the disdain within the scientific community for “crack” academics who challenged this thinking. And then I read In COVID’s Wake by Princeton professors Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, and recently recommended by President Eisgruber. It was a sobering realization of the dangers of groupthink, class biases, and vested interests to which we are all subject. Next year’s pre-frosh read?