That collision already happened in 2020 when "it's dangerous and illegal for people to meet even in small groups" turned overnight into "protests/riots are OK a

That collision already happened in 2020 when "it's dangerous and illegal for people to meet even in small groups" turned overnight into "protests/riots are OK as long as they're for DEI reasons" and the only thing coming out of the public sector biology world was open letters of support. A lot of the so-called anti vax or misinformation wars are really just conflicts between the people who already realized that academia prefers collectivist ideology to the scientific method, and people who still talk about public sector expertise as if it's platonic ideal rendered real.