Can economists give wise advice about #pregnancy? Read #EmilyOster:
"Obstetricians will tell you to cut out coffee and alcohol; Oster concludes that studies suggest you can actually safely have a small amount of both. Doctors also caution women to avoid deli meats and never to eat sushi; Oster’s research suggests high-quality sushi is just fine (“People eat it every day in Japan,” she reminds me) and deli meats are no riskier than salads, but it’s best to avoid turkey."
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"Despite its prominence, Oster’s work on COVID in schools has attracted little scrutiny—even though it has been funded since last summer by organizations that, without exception, have explicit commitments to opposing teacher’s unions, supporting charter schools, and expanding corporate freedom. In addition to grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Walton Family Foundation, and Arnold Ventures, Oster has received funding from far-right billionaire Peter Thiel."
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Harvard-educated economist Emily Oster is back in the news right now due to a piece by her Atlantic published calling for a "pandemic amnesty" — "both sides" have had it right and wrong, she wants to claim.
Oster opposed shutting schools down during the pandemic. Last year, Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman looked into Oster's funding sources as she addressed these issues:
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Free-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given them the imprimatur of science, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman.
COVID minimization- It's rooted in White Supremacy - Literature and Media Review( 6/15/200 to 7/13/2021) Joe Rowe @buildwithjoe School Parent, Portland OR BIT.LY/canweopen2020 My lit review began in June 2020 when I placed calls to people creating myths minimizing COVID and school transmission....
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