"A recurrent pattern, since January 2020, has been the tendency of Team Science to get wronger with each passing moment. I won’t ever defend containment, masking or mass vaccination, but in the beginning – when Science first hit upon these ideas – the possibility that they’d have some mitigating effect was at least defensible. Over time, though, as events have discredited each of these policies in turn, it’s proven impossible to remove any of them from the scientific canon, and all signs are that the Science Followers will follow these broken ideas straight off a cliff. The whole problem of Corona and how to manage it attracted too much attention too soon, and rapidly became mired in a set of early, ill-informed and unproductive paradigms.

Perhaps the lesson from all of this, is that Science is not the thing we should be Following in novel and uncertain situations at all. Perhaps Science is not after all a window into a higher world of wisdom and knowledge, but merely a mirror upon ourselves, that will only ever tell us what we want to hear. Perhaps we will never get out of this, until we can put the Science back into the closet where it belongs, and start thinking for ourselves again."

This is what worries me, so many seemingly intelligent people rendered totally incapable of thinking for themselves.