Quoted by “Medical Conservatives.” Funded by oil money.
5 min readSep 11, 2022
Professor Jonathan Howard pointed out on Twitter that this statistic was being cited by self proclaimed “medical conservatives.”
So, I looked up Professor Don Boudreaux — because who would ever make a statement like this? What kind of person thinks of human lives purely in terms of relative risk? Certainly not a physician who has ever worked with children. But if not a…