Redfield’s Warning

By Jonathan Latham, PhD. It is a remarkable fact that, despite its purported emphasis on science, no one who led the US pandemic response in its first year, not Robert Redfield, not his colleague Deborah Birx, nor his nemeses Tony Fauci, Alex Azar, and Scott Atlas, had the standard qualification expected of a scientist, a PhD. Nor did any of them have a particularly exceptional research career. So what qualities caused them to rise to the top? Midway through his new book, Redfield’s Warning,...