William Matthew Briggs, Ph.D., is a statistician, scientist, consultant, and writer. He is also a policy advisor at The Heartland Institute, former professor at the Cornell Medical School, and author of “Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics.” He blogs at WMBriggs.com. His latest book, co-authored with Douglas Axe and Jay W. Richards, is “The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe.”