I like to say "I believe in science". However, what I've seen in the last 2 years is only science by name and by fiat. We've been fed wrong information after

I like to say "I believe in science". However, what I've seen in the last 2 years is only science by name and by fiat. We've been fed wrong information after wrong information "for our own good", which has caused the population to lose confidence as the article perfectly explains. This is terrible, as trust and confidence take a long time to build. Now we have a wonderful new technology (mRNA vaccine) that could be helpful against many ailments, but that the population has learned to fear. The root cause seem to be the government desires to cover their own mistakes (ex: the masks being inefficient: because they didn't have enough at first, how hands washing was so important... for airborne virus (!!!): because air filtration was too expansive, how the old vaccine is so important against omicron: because they haven't adapted the vaccine so hey let's give a 3rd, a 4th shot and so on, sending people known to have covid in retirement homes full of vulnerable people: because they hadn't built adequate facilities...) I believe in science, but I can hardly blame people who now subscribe to weird ideas: in their defense, they have noticed some of the lies so in a Bayesian setting they have adjusted their priors: by default they now distrust every official message, and unfortunately for them they may not have the proper scientific knowledge to better adapt their probability distributions. I seriously hope there will be official inquiries about a level of mismanagement that borders criminal negligence, and that will have cost human lives.