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The majority of governors in the United States have ordered or recommended that statewide school closures continue for the rest of the academic year to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. CNN
By now, millions of Americans have heard that a flawed computer model helped spur governments to order population-wide lockdowns in response to the coronavirus—a model that assumed such lockdowns would help. Few, however, know the pedigree for this untested belief.
Douglas Axe, Ph.D., is the Maxwell Professor of molecular biology at Biola University, the founding director of Biologic Institute, the founding editor of BIO-Complexity, and the author of “Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed.” His latest book, co-authored with W.M. Briggs and Jay W. Richards, is “The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe.”
