Not sure what you're looking for. Public health officials sacrificed their hard-won trust based on empiricism and truth-telling at the altar of expediency in an

Not sure what you're looking for. Public health officials sacrificed their hard-won trust based on empiricism and truth-telling at the altar of expediency in an "emergency". After that's done, all that's left are arguments from authority. In that environment, apparently more people are receptive to the idea of picking their own authorities regardless of their objectively harebrained notions.