How Elite Consensus Botched COVID, Climate, and the Economy - Dr. Steven Koonin

Podcast: Dad Saves America · John Papola

Opublikowano: 2026-08-27

I sat down with theoretical physicist Dr. Steven Koonin, author of “Unsettled” and former Under Secretary of Energy for Science under President Obama, to discuss what he calls the “consensus trap.” He argues that the 2008 financial crisis, COVID policies, and climate alarmism all followed the same template, and the people who got it wrong faced no accountability while the costs fell on the poor. Institutions built policy on flawed models, manufactured an elite consensus, and punished the scientists who dissented. We get into: * Why Fauci saying “I represent science” was a betrayal of science * How the...