Episode Description
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3qhwVi1Eg
Podcast audio:
In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Samantha Watkins interviews Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University, about the alarming trend of anti-vaccine irrationality coming from government leaders.
Topics include:
The state of vaccine science
Hepatitis B vaccine
Covid vaccine
The cause of conspiracism
The real-world impact of conspiracism
A healthy culture’s approach to vaccine science
Resources:
“A Pro-Freedom Approach to Infectious Disease” by Onkar Ghate, in which he shares ARI’s view of the role of government with respect to infectious disease
This episode was recorded on December 15, 2025, and posted on December 18, 2025.
Image Credit: Alex Wong / via Getty Images
Podcast audio:
In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Samantha Watkins interviews Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University, about the alarming trend of anti-vaccine irrationality coming from government leaders.
Topics include:
The state of vaccine science
Hepatitis B vaccine
Covid vaccine
The cause of conspiracism
The real-world impact of conspiracism
A healthy culture’s approach to vaccine science
Resources:
“A Pro-Freedom Approach to Infectious Disease” by Onkar Ghate, in which he shares ARI’s view of the role of government with respect to infectious disease
This episode was recorded on December 15, 2025, and posted on December 18, 2025.
Image Credit: Alex Wong / via Getty Images