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We're a free society, as are many other democracies and free societies in the world.

And somehow the guidance of public health became a law issuing function or a regulation issuing function.

This is your host Scott Bertram, and that's Dr. Scott Atlas, founding fellow at the Academy

for Science and Freedom at Hillsdale College, also senior fellow in health policy at the Hoover

Institution.

We talked with Dr. Atlas today about the Academy for Science and Freedom's

statement on the ethical principles of public health. Dr. Atlas, thanks so much for joining us.

Happy to be here. A few weeks ago, the Academy for Science and Freedom released a statement

on ethical principles of public health, a 10-point statement

authored by 12 prominent medical science, public health, biomedical ethics experts from around

the world. We will, of course, dig into these 10 points in just a moment. But why did you

feel and why did the Academy feel a need to act in this

realm? Well, I think that we have seen during the pandemic management a violation of the fundamental

principles of public health in the sense of the ethical norms.

And because of those violations, there has been tremendous damage to trust in public health

leadership.

And I think this is extremely dangerous because we need to have a reliable source

of guidance in a free society if we're going to, you know, solve or be able to withstand

future crises, and we know those crises are inevitable.

And it's just a big part.

It's one part of the extraordinarily harmful, you know, things that we've seen during the pandemic management

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