During the pandemic, skepticism has been met with backlash and censorship, acts that have only further hindered science, which depends on healthy skepticism
John Ioannidis reported that by August 2021, 330,000 scientific papers had been published about COVID-19, written by about 1 million different people; the massive scientific involvement related to COVID-19 is unprecedented, but much of the work is fundamentally flawed
Social and mainstream media have played a role in deciding who is an “expert” and who is not, while those who questioned the “expert” data or asked for more evidence were vilified — a “dismissive, authoritarian approach ‘in defense of science.’”
The end result is an altered reality in which heavily conflicted corporations like Big Tech have emerged as regulators of society instead of being regulated themselves
The path to good science and the truth depends on continued scientific exploration, challenges and skepticism — all things that have been seen as anathema due to the authoritarian control that has taken over during the pandemic
Read the full analysis by Dr. Mercola
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