Sam Bowman on COVID Skeptics

Evening Standard – ICLE Director of Competition Policy Sam Bowman was quoted by the Evening Standard about debunking common arguments from COVID-19 skeptics. You can read the full piece here.

Sam Bowman, a senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, tells us they’re trying to “join up the dots” in the ecosystem of what they see as misleading claims. Anti-Virus has a list of sceptics, including academics, journalists and Twitter users, whose arguments it documents.

“Everybody makes mistakes,” Bowman says, but seeing the same people being “consistently wrong and in the same way, you wonder what’s going on there”.