SURE it is,
@Bench . And now you're going to tell me that vaccines will get politicized, and science itself will come into question for how to handle a global pandemic.
Pfft...wacko.
Ho boy. I'll leave some thoughts on this and focus on the most important takeaways and not get into the specific issues.
So the thing is, experts will make mistakes and get things wrong. That's important to note. This is part of the process. They are human, after all. I'm not sure any of us expect perfection, but some use it as a justification to dismiss much in that field as unreliable. That consequently all information, vetted or not, is now equally valid, because the "experts" got it wrong.
“Science is an enterprise of human beings, so there are all sorts of jealousies and rivalries and unwillingness to admit mistakes,” Sagan said. “But the great advantage is that the culture of science is opposed to these frailties, and the collective enterprise of science undoes them. We give our highest rewards to those who disprove the contentions of our most revered figures.”
“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong,” Sagan once said. “That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process."
This process can move slower than we would like. It's run by humans, remember. But it happens. More often than any other endeavor I can think of.
