The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe
by Jay W. Richards Ph.D., William M. Briggs Ph.D., & Douglas Axe Ph.D.
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About the Book
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
The human cost of the emergency response to COVID-19 has far outweighed the benefits. That’s the sobering verdict of a trio of scholars—a biologist, a statistician, and a philosopher— in this comprehensive assessment of the worst panic-induced disaster in history.
As the media fanned the flames of panic, government officials and a new elite of scientific experts ignored the established protocols for mitigating a dangerous disease. Instead, they shut down the world economy, closed every school, confined citizens to their homes, and threatened to enforce a regime of extreme social distancing indefinitely.
And the American public—amazingly enough—complied without protest. Modestly but relentlessly focused on what we know and don’t know about the coronavirus, Douglas Axe, William M. Briggs, and Jay W. Richards demonstrate in this eye-opening study what real experts can contribute when a pandemic strikes.
In the early spring of 2020, the panic of government officials, the hysteria of the media, and the hubris of suddenly powerful scientists produced a worldwide calamity. The Price of Panic is the essential book for understanding what happened and how to avoid repeating our deadly mistakes.
About the Authors
Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., O.P., is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, Executive Editor of The Stream, Assistant Research Professor in the Busch School of Business and Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America.
William M. Briggs. the Statistician to the Stars!, is a writer, philosopher and itinerant scientist, who lives far from Experts. He earned his PhD from Cornell University (before it became fully woke) in statistics. He studies the philosophy of science, the use and misuses of uncertainty, the corruption of science, and the uselessness of most predictions. He began life as a cryptologist for the Air Force, slipped into weather and climate forecasting, and matured into an epistemologist. He maintains an active and lively blog at wmbriggs.com.
Douglas Axe (@DougAxe) is the Maxwell Professor of Molecular Biology at Biola University. His love of the life sciences grew from a love of engineering and the physical sciences. In writing his first book, Undeniable—How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, he developed an appreciation for the power of simple, commonsensical reasoning as a way of connecting with readers. His second book, coauthored with Jay Richards and William Briggs, continues that emphasis: The Price of Panic—How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe.
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