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The Decline and Fall of the Experts

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The Decline and Fall of the Experts
A screen at the Karolinska Institute shows this year's laureates Katalin Kariko of Hungary (L) and Drew Weissman of the U.S. during the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Oct. 2, 2023. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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You could just feel the sense of stunned alarm when the Nobel Prize committee announced its decision on medicine and physiology. It went to Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman for adding a chemical change to mRNA shots that was taken up by Ms. Karikó’s own vaccine employer, which is BioNTech in Germany, which further contracted out with Pfizer.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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