Cracks Appear At NIH, FDA, CDC As Scientists, Doctors Regret “Bad Science”

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Many of those who trusted their careers to government service find that they are trapped in a dystopian system that pays no attention to the real science and data it produces. They have nowhere else to go but they are quitting anyway. One FDA official said, “I can’t tell you how many people at the FDA have told me, ‘I don’t like any of this, but I just need to make it to my retirement.’”

https://www.commonsense.news/p/us-public-health-agencies-arent-following

https://www.technocracy.news/cracks-appear-at-nih-fda-cdc-as-scientists-doctors-regret-bad-science/

Nowhere has this problem been clearer—or the stakes higher—than on official public health policy regarding children and Covid.

 

"Trust the science" is in fact the least scientific motto one can think of since it is a basically a naked appeal to authority rather than, say, a careful examination of the evidence. It's a sad comment on not only the scientific community but American society at large when the powers that be view smothering dissent as a central requirement for maintaining authority.

I think it was Mike Rowe that said something like “as soon as you put the word ‘the’ in ‘trust the science,’ you’re suggesting that there’s a single correct science and all other science should be ignored…”