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Mark D. Rice's avatar

Amazing that as a "scientific"agency they would subscribe to the notion of "settled science," meaning they are actually political, not scientific! Any attempt to displace scientific inquiry and scientific scepticism with anything that encourages groupthink is antithetical to the actual rigorous process of scientific inquiry and further ongoing developments in science.

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Mark Changizi's avatar

I suspect that when there’s not collective hysteria of the kind we saw in 2020, their protocol is fine. Like a boulder at the top of a hill — it can move one way or another a few meters, and you can still push it back. But if it gets pushed a dozen more meters on one direction, the forces are so strong now in that direction it’s just going all the way.

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Mark D. Rice's avatar

Yes, good point! I wonder, following your simile, if that few extra meters happened because of the supposition that scientists may have had that “someone” would push back, or was there a general surprise and underestimation of the effect of the gravity of the social chaos?

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Mark Changizi's avatar

Exactly.

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God ARIES's avatar

There were medical doctors and nonpolitical scientists who pushed back, but they were censored and/or punished in various ways by psychological doctors and political scientists, plus the media and governments.

And since many weren't aware this was happening, they caved to the peer pressure.

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