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.

We want the information as policy leaders.

We want a process.

We want to then use that information as an influence, but of course, making a logical,

deductive reasoning solution to think.

This is your host, Scott Bertram. And that's Dr. Scott Atlas, our first guest on today's program.

Dr. Atlas is a member of the new Hillsdale College Academy for Science and Freedom,

also a former advisor to President Trump and a member of his White House coronavirus task force.

He's Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in Healthcare Policy at the Hoover Institution, too.

We talk at length with Dr. Atlas about the new Academy for Science and Freedom at Hillsdale College.

Dr. Atlas, thanks so much for joining us.

Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

We are excited about the launch, which was late last year. Dr. Atlas, thanks so much for joining us. Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

We are excited about the launch, which was late last year, of the new Hillsdale College Academy for Science and Freedom. You're one of three fellows to begin this effort. Tell us a bit

about what this is. What is the Academy for Science and Freedom that you are now a part of

here at Hillsdale College?

Sure.

So we have seen exposed really by the pandemic this past couple of years that there is a very precarious, frankly, dangerous situation that has evolved in science.

And that is that science has become politicized.

Science has become instead of the basis of truth arising from debate and the free exchange

of ideas, it's become quite the opposite, where any

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