Rejecting science has a long history – the pandemic showed what happens
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It starts by minimizing people who "felt mandatory vaccinations violated their personal freedom" - a matter that is philosophical and political, and not at all scientific.
It goes on to assert that "Fauci was even falsely accused of funding research to develop the virus", citing a favorable reference and ignoring NIH ties to GoF and the days-old news that China was blocking further investigation related to a lab leak, which is now widely regarded as the most likely origin.
In sum, it looks to me like a political op-ed making a vague appeal to "scientific" expertise.
This was a rare period where all the major systems of media, information, and entertainment presented a message as _Scientific Fact_. And if you shared a video on Facebook of Fauci from March 2020 saying things that conflicted $Todays_facts, they would delete it for "Misinformation".
Remember discussions about "natural immunity"? For years, we were scapegoated, smeared, or disingenously referred to as "MAGA / Trump supporters" because we were aware of this, but it took until 2023 for a mainstream news service to publicize this information. [1] And yet even if we had coronavirus and recovered from it just fine, the president warned us of a "winter of severe illness and death" if we didn't take additional shots of a product that did not undergo long-term safety testing, despite these vaccines not designed to prevent transmission or provide immunity, unlike traditional/historical vaccines (Polio, smallpox, etc). [2]. Even talking about the benefits of Vitamin D was treated as _heresy_ and met with the same derision from the left-leaning journalists I used to respect.
And yet, the vaccine mandates are still in effect at most companies, states, universities, and counties. Why? I think intertia.
All of _The Science_ has been heavily politicized or otherwise a downstream customer of Pfizer.
[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/natural-immunity-... [2]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/politics/joe-biden-warning-wi...