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They Blinded Us with “Science” (Regarding Covid-19)
- seesawtron 6y agoTLDR: This article is a rant. Now in hindsight everyone is ranting about how lockdowns were a bad decision. When s$%t was going down and no one knew what to do, you depend on leaders to make the choices that not everyone can. I don't see what is so hard to see in the "science" part? Haven't you all seen the flattening of the exponential rise in covid-19 cases with the introduction of lockdown measures? Was that a happy coincidence? No, it was a strategy introduced to slow the growth. Now look at Sweden and Brazil that didn't introduce lockdowns and how they are still struggling. see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/shutdowns-prevented-60-million-coronavirus-infections-us-study-finds/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/shutdowns-p...
- giardini 6y agoThe book "Wrong!" by David H. Freedman describes in detail how this occurs in hundreds of cases. We've been blinded by institutional science and experts for decades. I've had to put the book down repeatedly out of dismay after reading yet another description of how scientists, experts, consultants and entire organizations have misled the public, other scientists and themselves. https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-consultants/dp/0316023787 https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-cons... Science is in very, very bad shape in the USA right now. The Covid-19 crisis has pulled back the curtain revealing only a fraction of the errors, uncertainties, and misdeeds of modern "science" and "experts".