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<title><![CDATA[Scott Atlas - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18799.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Scott Atlas]]></description><category domain="18799">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The 'Consensus Trap']]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/covid-climate-and-the-consensus-trap-2c91d57f?st=pH1PtT</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scientists are as prone as anyone else to groupthink, and stifling dissent often produces disaster.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NIH Is a Weapon for Politcal Power. Abolish It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/02/nih-is-government-weapon-political-power-abolish-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1980, economist Milton Friedman said the National Institutes of Health'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' should be abolished. Friedman said the same about another government research agency, the National Science Foundation. And when he was asked what the NSF should be replaced with,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' he replied:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FDA Has Wrong Mission. That's Why It Fails]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/25/fda_has_the_wrong_mission_thats_why_it_fails__154262.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress introduced legislation this month allowing seriously ill patients to access select treatments their physicians would prescribe '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' without FDA approval.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Understanding and Saving Gen Z To Save America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/understanding_and_saving_gen_z_to_save_america_153299.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, stands as a profoundly damaged cohort, scarred by ideological indoctrination, social media'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s corrosive grip, marginalization of morality anchors like religion and families, and a narcissistic culture that breeds entitlement. Gen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Still Needs a Covid Reckoning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-still-needs-a-covid-reckoning-institutional-failure-values-breakdown-ee6a660d?st=Tzb3JY</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why does nobody want to talk about the most tragic breakdown of leadership and ethics in our lifetimes?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Birx Tried To Sabotage Meeting Between Trump, Top Scientists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/04/04/dr_scott_atlas_deborah_birx_tried_to_sabotage_meeting_between_trump_and_top_scientists_during_covid.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dr. Scott Atlas was an advisor to the president and a member of the White House COVID-19 Task Force starting in mid-July 2020. He says was shocked to see how powerful figures in Washington, including Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, were incentivized to politicize and monetize the response to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid Lessons Learned, Four Years Later]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-lessons-learned-four-years-later-596a9fa9?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[7 Steps to Restoring Trust in Public Health]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/10/30/todays_public_health_emergency_restoring_trust_with_seven_steps_149983.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The public health emergency of the SARS2-CoV pandemic ended long ago, but America faces a new emergency. Faith in health agencies has plummeted more rapidly since 2019 than any other government institution, with almost two-thirds now rating the FDA and the CDC as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'only fair or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders&rsquo; Medicare-for-All Would Destroy America&rsquo;s Health Care]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/11/sanders_medicare-for-all_would_destroy_americas_health_care_149470.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trust in public health has been shattered in the wake of COVID. Confidence in government health authorities has plummeted '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' 64% rate the FDA as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'only fair or poor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and 58% rate the CDC the same.
Ironically, and in defiance of Americans demanding more health autonomy, Sen....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Ignoring Facts and Fix Health Care for Minorities and the Poor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/12/stop_ignoring_facts_and_fix_health_care_for_minorities_and_the_poor_149344.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Medicaid, the government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ever-expanding single-payer insurance for low-income Americans, has ballooned by almost 24 million beneficiaries since the onset of the 2020 pandemic. Even though the COVID emergency has officially ended, many elected officials call for further expansion....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Covid Response Was Based on Lies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/america-covid-response-was-based-lies-opinion-1785177</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have seen an Orwellian attempt to rewrite history and to blame the failure of widespread lockdowns on the lockdowns' critics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Will Academia Account for Its Covid Failures?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-will-academia-account-for-its-covid-failures-pandemic-lockdowns-stanford-ivy-league-elite-narrative-ideology-11672346923?st=oy0ap9t9g1785w1&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We need universities to be robust centers of debate, not rigid enforcers of ideological conformity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs a Rebirth of Science]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/america-needs-a-rebirth-of-science/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s experience during Covid has revealed that the scientific community is not giving Americans what they need, what they deserve, and what they pay for. We must do better.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Watching the Nation's 'Top Scientists' Lie About Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/23/atlas-i-watched-the-nations-top-scientists-lie-about-covid-and-get-away-with-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After watching this debacle on TV, I knew full well what was coming later that day. The media would latch on to this and create even more public panic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Spread Panic in the Early Days of Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/how-panic-spread-in-the-early-days-of-covid-19-opinion/ar-AAQQEPw</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was February 2020, and news accounts had been describing increasingly alarming information about a deadly new virus emanating from Wuhan, China. Apart from my general concern about the spread of the infection, I was confused about some of the basic numbers being aired. The overall...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Truth About Lockdowns Really Prevail?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/01/27/will_the_truth_on_covid_restrictions_really_prevail_145128.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The consequences of the SARS2 coronavirus pandemic and its management have been enormous. Over 400,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus; more will certainly follow.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Even after almost a year, the pandemic still paralyzes our country. Despite all efforts, there has been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Pandemic of Misinformation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-pandemic-of-misinformation-11608570640?mod=djemalertNEWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The media's politicization of Covid has proved deadly and puts Americans' freedoms at risk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Reopen Our Schools &amp; Economy Safely]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/514948-restore-our-lives-using-medical-science-data-and-common-sense</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the lockdown may have been justified at the start, when little data was known, we know far more about the virus today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fear and Hysteria First, Educating Children Last?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/509699-fear-first-education-last</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States now stands alone among our peer nations in our willingness to sacrifice our children out of fear and hysteria.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Open the Schools--Skip the Masks and Social Distancing]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/education/500349-science-says-open-the-schools</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the COVID-19 hazard sets the new standard for health safety, the country will need to close its schools each year from November until April to guard against influenza.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shutdown Will Cost Americans Millions of Years of Life]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/499394-the-covid-19-shutdown-will-cost-americans-millions-of-years-of-life</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The national lockdown is responsible for at least 700,000 lost years of life every month, or about 1.5 million so far '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' already far surpassing the COVID-19 total]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Critical Case for Ending the Shutdown]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/498180-were-risking-national-suicide-if-we-dont-adjust-our-pandemic-response</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The total lockdown may have been justified at the start of this pandemic, but it must now end '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' smartly, without irrational requirements contrary to medical science, common sense and logic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Reopen Society Using Medical Science &amp; Logic]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/495833-how-to-open-society-using-medical-science-and-logic?rnd=1588469307</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Total isolation must now end to limit the enormous harms accumulating from sacrificing vital health care and imposing economic lockdown.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Actual Data Say It's Time to Start Easing Lockdowns]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/04/26/science-says-its-time-to-start-easing-the-coronavirus-lockdowns/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been enormous, and New York has suffered more than anywhere else in the world. Compared as a separate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' country, the New York area would rank, by far, as No. 1 for deaths per capita.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Data Are In&mdash;Stop the Panic and End the Lockdown]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Single Payer Health Care Is a Terrible Option]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/25/opinions/single-payer-failure-opinion-atlas/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite its decades of documented failure in Western Europe, single payer health care has newfound among support Democrats -- and it could come at great cost to the American people, writes Scott W. Atlas]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Replace Obamacare With System That Cuts Costs, Values Quality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/opinions/what-it-will-take-to-replace-obamacare-atlas/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scott Atlas writes that the Affordable Care Act saddled the health care system with regulations but did nothing to restrain costs]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Repairing the Obamacare Wreckage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Repairing+the+ObamaCare+Wreckage&amp;oq=Repairing+the+ObamaCare+Wreckage&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.94j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the Supreme Court decision to uphold the subsidies for private insurance in King v. Burwell, the fundamental problems with the Affordable Care Act remain. Ironically, it is the growing government centralization of health insurance at the expense of private insurance that must be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obamacare Fails the Poor &amp; Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/04/opinion/atlas-obamacare-poor-middle-class/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Anti-Innovation Effect]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=ObamaCare%27s+Anti-Innovation+Effect&amp;rlz=1C1TSNP_enUS507US507&amp;oq=ObamaCare%27s+Anti-Innovation+Effect&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.174j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Atlas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of the many unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the least noticed is its threat to innovation. Although most discussions center on the law's more immediate effects on hiring, insurance rates and access to doctors and care, attention should also be paid to its...]]></description>
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