Just Deserts

Profiling Amesh Adalja in the press

If you haven’t read, heard or seen—or heard of—and don’t know Amesh Adalja, you eventually, possibly will in the future. The Pittsburgh medical doctor’s a friend, source and fellow Objectivist who’s become widely known during the 2020 pandemic and its continuing and cataclysmic aftermath. That Dr. Adalja lectures at various medical and philosophical conferences, constantly talks to the press about facts, evidence and analysis about his field of endeavor, infectious disease, ought not to discourage anyone from getting to know him as a whole man.

Amesh Adalja at home in Pittsburgh

This is the impetus for my writing about him for a publication other than this one. I’ve interviewed the Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh graduate. I’ve read his commentary, attended his lectures and seen him on television talking about viruses. I’ve criticized and praised his work (read my thoughts on his general OCON session in Texas and his OCON talk in DC). During a recent visit to Pit…