Unfortunately - and as we can continue to see - there is nothing stopping scientists from being political mouth pieces. "Trust the science" comes with a huge a

Unfortunately - and as we can continue to see - there is nothing stopping scientists from being political mouth pieces. "Trust the science" comes with a huge asterisk: only the science of the approved scientific speaker by the approved political party and only of the approved narrative. The scientists that spoke out against this were quickly shunned, the wagons circled, and when evidence became to crushing to hold the narrative, history was simply re-written via gaslighting. With economists at least we know they will regularly be wrong and that you will openly see differing schools of thought on even the most foundational of issues.