From my op-ed at Fox News, “The classical liberal economist Friedrich Hayek foresaw this debate when he wrote: ‘Most scientists realize that we cannot plan the advance of knowledge, that in the voyage into the unknown—which is what research is—we are in great measure dependent on the vagaries of individual genius and of circumstance, and that scientific advance, like a new idea that will spring up in a single mind, will be the result of a combination of conceptions, habits, and circumstances brought to one person by society, the result as much of lucky accidents as of systematic effort.’

In other words, the benefits of scientific progress are only realized if science is free from excessive restraint.

Let’s hope Americans will, once again, rally to the cause of freedom and reject medical tyranny and allow each individual to live their life as their own conscience dictates. https://t.co/XjQplceepA

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 8, 2022

The same arguments against central planning for an economy also hold for science.  If, or rather when, the central planner errs the entire economy is threatened.  Likewise, when a central medical planner errs, all patients are threatened.

Anthony Fauci’s fundamental decision to ignore natural immunity has led to a cascade of bad decisions, the effects of which have seeped into all of our lives.  Ignoring the immunity that comes naturally with infection caused Fauci to underestimate the combined immunity in our country from vaccination and previous infection, leading him to advocate forced vaccination on everyone including those at very low risk, such as children and previously infected individuals.”

Read the entire column.

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