I didn’t say he was anti-science, but I don’t believe he should be saying stuff like this as the editor of a prestigious scientific journal:

“ Horton’s The Covid-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop it Happening Again (2020) has managed to stand out for its sharp polemic (Knight 2020). Horton denounces Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) as a crime against humanity and accuses Boris Johnson of misconduct in public office.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7383067/

Note his book was written in 2020 so before he even had much science, let alone formed a scientifically rigorous view.

Is it right that science at the highest levels is so politicised?