Not who you are replying to but... >How is anyone supposed to get actual science done... One would hope that scientists would not be diverted by questions by

Not who you are replying to but... >How is anyone supposed to get actual science done... One would hope that scientists would not be diverted by questions by people they do not work with or know on Facebook and are able to get actual science done regardless of a minority thinks. I wonder if it's rational or a good thing to defend scientists by potentially restricting the ignorance of lay people in public places? I think many would say it's good to avoid Harm and protect lives. It's easy to be irrational to defend rationality. Edits. Oh, it could be that people are extending "follow the science" and seeing how others are not and thinking this as a kind of lack of faith. Perhaps the idea that actual scientists are being stopped doing science because of no faith in them by small numbers of the public is actually a religious thought. That actual science needs people to believe in it for it to work, and if an other doesn't believe it, they are anethema. That could have explain my feelings about the irrationality of this.