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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.

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