“Trust the science!” For the first two years of the pandemic, this was the chorus used to shoot down any dissent. If you started to say that maybe fishing outdoors on a riverbank should be legal, you were barked at: Don’t you trust the science!
For the first two years of the pandemic, this was the chorus used to shoot down any dissent. If you started to say that maybe fishing outdoors on a riverbank should be legal, you were barked at: Don’t you trust the science!If you suggested that it was not great to force 5-year-olds to wear masks for seven hours a day, you were told to trust the scientists. And if you ever — God forbid — questioned Anthony Fauci, you were assailed as anti-science.
"They're really criticizing science because I represent science. That's dangerous." pic.twitter.com/zLzceD2DHe What lay behind these “corrections” was the premise that normal folks had no standing to question scientists on their prescriptions for how we ought to live.“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatements can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin,” J. Robert Oppenheimer said. “And this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”Then he got a bit philosophical.
A scientist’s expertise does not include knowing what is good for man. Anthony Fauci believed his job included knowing what was good for man — and this good didn’t include family, friendship, or neighborliness.
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