It gets even worse when policy-level thinking gets incorporated — something like, “eating red meat causes climate change; climate change hurts people; therefore

It gets even worse when policy-level thinking gets incorporated — something like, “eating red meat causes climate change; climate change hurts people; therefore we declare that eating red meat hurts people.” The most obvious recent example of this was the health establishment supporting mass gatherings during the George Floyd protests, because of the argument that fighting racial inequities was even more critical to public health than stopping the spread of COVID. Trust in public health institutions has been consequently gutted, and I don’t see it coming back any time soon.