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Meet the conservative legal scholar who impressed Team Trump with his brand-new virus theory NewsColony If you haven’t read the New Yorker interview yet, go do that if you want to get a feel for the very uppermost echelons of conservative … let’s say … “scientific rigor.” If you’ve had about all you can take of coronavirus misinformation, however, you might want to bow out. We’ve had a long, long damn month. The summary version is this: Epstein, whose original piece suggested we might see “about 500 deaths” from the pandemic (he now says his math was wrong and is very sorry about that), does not know how pandemics work, and so he set out to reinvent or reexplain or (???) the same pandemic curve (see: #FlattenTheCurve) that every actual expert already knows about. Hang on, you’ve got to get a taste of this: “[…] you cannot use any exponential system because essentially then everybody is going to be dead, because things just keep doubling, doubling, and doubling. So ...