B. O. Face
1 min readSep 2, 2024

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Only if you belive randos on YouTube, who are out to make a quick buck, rather than people who have devoted their lives to study.
I was glued to the podcast This Week in Virology throughout the pandemic so I was listening to actual scientists. It is nerdy and hard to follow sometimes. They never tired of pointing out that COVID was a moving target so scientists were sure to get stuff wrong. But north of 15,000 people were dying of it every week worldwide and scientists were being called upon to DO SOMETHING. Journalists reporting on the science ignored the caveats because they are boring. Science had historically been regarded as a repository of truth, and when it comes to long-established results, that's true, though even they can be overturned, and Mavericks like Alfred Wegener (who wrote about continental drift in 1915) can turn out to be basically correct after being derided.
The overall point is, people had a mistaken idea of how the scientific enterprise works, then were all indignant when it failed to live up to that false perception.

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B. O. Face
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