There is an easy path the institutions can take to depoliticise science - spend more time talking about the importance of liberty and letting people make their

There is an easy path the institutions can take to depoliticise science - spend more time talking about the importance of liberty and letting people make their own choices. I can see how scientists would be getting a lot of abuse at the moment, because they failed to get the message out that they didn't support the upswing of authoritarianism during COVID. I can appreciate the difficulties they faced, the authoritarians were organised and had one of their favourite opportunities - mass fear - in play. It is still bad to harass scientists. It shows a lack of thoughtfulness about where the problem is coming form.