“This is an avoidable problem,” Ruskin said. “It would be far better for public health if they picked experts with no conflict of interest. They can do that but

“This is an avoidable problem,” Ruskin said. “It would be far better for public health if they picked experts with no conflict of interest. They can do that but they don’t.” This is naive. It's saying that politics would work better if you remove politics from it. Possibly true, but like saying bridges would be cheaper if the gravitational constant was smaller. IMHO the better approach is to avoid centralized decision making particularly for such difficult subjects. And learn from the resulting massive parallelism we sometimes call liberty.