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Universities’ Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason
A student attends her graduation ceremony in her bedroom at Georgetown University in May 2020. (Photo by Agnes Bun/ AFP via Getty Images).
Parents and students should challenge dogma with data.
By Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H.
01.04.22 — Education
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Universities are supposed to be bastions of critical thinking, reason, and logic. But the Covid policies they have adopted—policies that have derailed two years of students’ education and threaten to upend the upcoming spring semester—have exposed them as nonsensical, anti-scientific, and often downright cruel. 

Some of America’s most prestigious univers…

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Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Marty Makary is a Johns Hopkins professor & public health researcher. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and NYT bestselling author of the new book BLIND SPOTS: When medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health.

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