The answer is plurality within the scientific community. During the Covid authoritarian period, scientists like Dr Robert Malone were evicted from society beca

The answer is plurality within the scientific community. During the Covid authoritarian period, scientists like Dr Robert Malone were evicted from society because they didn’t toe the government line on support for mRNA vaccination. I’m not saying Malone and co were right, necessarily, but the way they were shut down and demonised suggested to me that we stopped doing real scientific enquiry for a couple of years and succumbed to corporate lobbying and government over-reach.