The Discernable Interviews
Alex Washburne: 'Fauci Trees' That Kill the Saplings of Science
1hr 33min
10 July 2022
Alex Washburne has undergraduate degrees in biology and applied mathematics from University of New Mexico and a PhD from a Princeton University studying competition in ecological, epidemiological, and economic systems. He’s actively researched COVID epidemiology, the economic impacts of pandemic policy, and stock + capital market responses to epidemiological news.
In this interview we explored:
- Covid-19 policy monism in a world of plurality
- How decentralisation and competition can create better solutions
- The strangling of new ideas by powerful incumbents
- The desire to kill anything that is ‘not the same’ as you
- The intolerance of some scientific fields
- Predictions of endemicity and profitable stocks
