At the end of May, my friend Todd Myers, of the Washington Policy Center, wrote an excellent piece for The Wall Street Journal detailing how Washington Governor Jay Inslee's response to the COVID-19 pandemic was anything but scientific. In Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz has claimed he is "following the science," but nearly all of the decisions he's made have been arbitrary value judgments based on his own political worldview.
In his piece, Mr. Myers explains how politicians abandon the scientific method and data-driven policymaking when the numbers don't support the actions they want to take. You'll see there are many parallels between...
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