Scott Atlas Has a Way Forward for Public Health Reform
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Guests: Scott Atlas, Christopher S. Busch, & Joseph Cella
Host Scot Bertram talks with Scott Atlas, Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution and fellow at Hillsdale College's Academy for Science and Freedom, about common-sense reforms to America's Health bureaucracy and his article “Today’s Public Health Emergency: Restoring Trust With Seven Steps." Christopher S. Busch, English Professor at Hillsdale College, finishes a series on the life and work of poet Robert Frost. And Joseph Cella, former United States Ambassador and founder and principal at The Pontifex Group, explains what an ambassador really does and how a transition team helps a new President adjust to his new role.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.3 | We need objective information to process because we're thinking adults and it's a free society, and obviously future health crises will occur, and many things will be told to us by our elected government, |
| 0:42.0 | by people in the media. We need to be able to filter out truth from non-truth. This is your host, |
| 0:48.7 | Scott Bertram. Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:55.5 | That was Dr. Scott Atlas, Robert Wesson's Senior Fellow in Healthcare Policy at the Hoover |
| 1:00.6 | Institution, a fellow at Hillsdale's Academy for Science and Freedom and co-director at the Global Liberty Initiative. |
| 1:07.6 | We'll talk in depth about his recommendations for ways to restore trust in public |
| 1:12.3 | health officials. Dr. Atlas, thanks for joining us. Happy to be here. You wrote a piece at Real |
| 1:18.5 | Clear Politics. Today's public health emergency restoring trust with seven steps. In it, you say faith |
| 1:26.5 | in health agencies has plummeted more rapidly since |
| 1:29.6 | 2019 than any other government institution. What's the consequences of that? Why should we be so |
| 1:35.7 | concerned? Well, because of the really mismanagement, the lack of information transparency, |
| 1:43.4 | and mandated behaviors against common sense and against all |
| 1:48.9 | basic scientific evidence, the public has lost faith not only in our government institutions |
| 1:55.5 | like the FDA and the CDC, as I mentioned in the piece with almost two-thirds now rating their |
| 2:00.5 | performance as only fair or poor, but half of America expresses the CDC, as I mentioned in the piece, with almost two-thirds now rating their performance |
| 2:01.1 | is only fair or poor. |
| 2:03.4 | But half of America expresses little confidence in science itself. |
| 2:07.8 | This is important because as an objective society, we need to trust the so-called objective |
| 2:16.2 | people. And that has generally been the credible, you know, |
| 2:22.4 | expert class. In this sort of area, science and medical, medical science, public health guidance, |
| 2:29.4 | people don't have time, regular people, to go through the data. It's not that it's that |
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