{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Heartland Daily Podcast","title":"Ill Literacy, Episode 180: An Abundance of Caution (Guest: David Zweig)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4346,"description":"In Episode 180 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with David Zweig, author ofAn Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.\n \nHeartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David Zweig to discuss his latest book, An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions. They chat about how everyone from journalists to eminent health officials repeatedly made fundamental errors in their assessment and presentation of evidence regarding COVID and the closing of American schools, and how there was never any evidence that long-term school closures, nor a host of interventions imposed on students when they were in classrooms, would reduce overall cases or deaths in any meaningful way.\n \nGet the book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549158/an-abundance-of-caution/\n \nShow Notes:\n \nThe Atlantic: David Zweig – “The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen”\n \nCity Journal: James B. Meigs – “What Were We Thinking?”\n \nCommentary: Noam Blum – “School’s Out Forever”\n \nThe Dispatch: Kevin D. Williamson – “The Wrong Kind of Abundance”\n \nEducation Next: Frederick Hess – “The Junk Science of Pandemic School Closure”\n \nThe Free Press: David Zweig – “How Covid Lies Destroyed Kids’ Lives”\n \nThe Wall Street Journal: Philip Wallach – “‘An Abundance of Caution’ and ‘In Covid’s Wake’: Failing the Pandemic Test”\n \nWashington Examiner: Jesse Adams – “David Zweig proves the fog of war is no excuse for the damage done to children’s education in the name of public health”\n \nThe 74: Greg Toppo – “Journalist David Zweig Calls COVID School Closures ‘A False Story About Medical Consensus’”","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2xLxMmPe28MnonUa9AciVxMi_Bu3CavKGZzqhK99mjE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM2NzQzLzE2Njk4/Mzk1OTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}