> The problem is the scientific community did not immediately denounce those scientists that clearly were putting policy before science. Who said this though?

> The problem is the scientific community did not immediately denounce those scientists that clearly were putting policy before science. Who said this though? This seems like a caricature. All I remember is a bunch of confusing messaging from the WHO and a bunch of tut-tutting from experts warning people not to hoard or stockpile PPE that was needed more pressingly by health care workers. Can you be specific about who said what, and when, that "destroyed the whole of the scientific community's credibility"? I just don't see it. In my world by late march everyone was wearing homespun masks form Etsy...