Notably the status quo for decades of research pre-covid was that masks don't work ... Then in 2020 hysteria broke out, most scientists got scared shtless and

Notably the status quo for decades of research pre-covid was that masks don't work ... Then in 2020 hysteria broke out, most scientists got scared shtless and you could only publish papers that indicate that masks work even though all the empirical evidence around us show that they don't. If anything shows how short term scientific consensus is trivially falsifiable as it depends on few influential people. Good luck trying to get a NIH grant with the hypothesis that masks might no be effective ... It is a no-go hypothesis from the start. Same with zoonotic vs lab origin.