The worst thing to ever happen to the sciences was social media and celebrity epidemiologists and others…
Atila Iamarino is a “science communicator” with a PhD in microbiology. In 2021, he wrote this column:
Translated from Portuguese into English:
After being called out, he backtracked slightly:
Scientist who became famous in the networks talking about the pandemic defended in column in Folha de São Paulo that it will be necessary to silence anti-vaccine voices or make mandatory dose and then considered title “unfortunate”
The technocratic elite believe we must ban Democracy itself and put the technocratic elite in charge. They know better than us, it is for our own good.
(FWIW – the response to speech you do not like is more speech – not censorship. Today in the U.S. we have one party conducting censorship on social media, and another censoring schoolbooks. Everyone favors censorship – as long as they are the ones who get to do the censoring.)
The technocratic elite have shot their fields in the head, destroying all trust and credibility.
The daily duels of celebrity epidemiologists on social media were a catastrophe, coupled with authoritative pronouncements of things we now know to be false (“The vaccines prevent the spread of Covid-19” as one example, or that cloth masks made from pillow covers or t-shirts would effectively stop Covid.)
This behavior has destroyed confidence in all science.
Yet there is, as of now, no attempt to restore trust. At this rate, it is unlikely that trust will be restored in my lifetime.
There are so many of these trust destroying actions – protesting is more important than fighting a virus:
