In france we have this research director, Didier Raoult, who pushed for the use of Chloroquine as a treatment against COVID. He was the head of a research cente

In france we have this research director, Didier Raoult, who pushed for the use of Chloroquine as a treatment against COVID. He was the head of a research center dedicated to tropical diseases. This guy literally argued that the smaller the test sample, the better the result. This guy lost his job of director (not to mention investigation of research fraud), but he mades it very difficult for uneducated people to trust the vaccine. Not to mention that I dated a biology scientist and teacher who did not want to get vaccinated. I heard 2 other scientist lost their jobs in a research lab in my city because of not wanting to get vaccinated. So no matter what people will tell me, it seems that science is rife with people who should not have their credentials, despite high level education, universities, "merit based" grades, etc. It reinforce my cynicism, because I had some scientific education, but I dropped and never reached a degree. It's what Pierre Bourdieu talks about, that degrees are a way of maintaining social classes. It's exactly what you hear in the movie "Good will hunting", that a degree is just a piece of paper, while people can just educate themselves by reading science books.