Victor Davis Hansen: COVID-19, the Death of Science, and Superstition Disguised as Morality

Recommendable! Indeed, what we have witnessed in the face of the global SARS-Cov-2/Covid-19 pandemic is lots of charlatanry coming from the scientific and medical elite, most prominently from this 80 year old buffoon and highest paid federal employee Anthony Fauci!

"... We now know from data that a prior case of COVID-19 offers immunity as robust as vaccination. Why, then, are President Joe Biden’s proposed vaccination mandates ignoring that scientific fact? Dr. Anthony Fauci, when asked, seemed at a loss for words. ...
Fauci also threw out mythical percentages needed for herd immunity, apparently in an attempt to persuade the public that it will never be safe until every American is protected from COVID-19 by vaccination only. ...

And why was it that hard for the scientific community to postulate a likely origin of COVID-19? Some of the very scientists engaged in gain-of-function research oversaw an investigation with Chinese authorities. They confirmed the predetermined conclusion that the virus likely had little to do with gain-of-function engineering. And they saw little proof it was birthed in a Wuhan virology lab.

Yet, scientific opinion, emerging evidence, and basic logic have suggested the opposite. ..."

COVID-19, the Death of Science, and Superstition Disguised as Morality

The religion of science

In the age, where traditional religions loose followers, where atheism is en vogue etc., the need of humans to believe in something endures!

Follow the science, we are reminded almost every day! If you don't divine the science, you are castigated as a skeptic, heretic, denier or worse!

Elected politicians claim they adhere to scientific advice in making their decisions! However, they usually select scientific advice according to their prejudices!

However, scientists are only human, all too human! They err, they pursue ideologies of their choosing etc. that then influences their work and results! Scientific knowledge is rarely ever settled! Just because someone is a scientist does not mean he or she is beyond any doubt like a high priest, but scientists are treated like an oracle! 

Unfortunately, science is often not much more than scientism or akin to pseudoscience! Beware of the pretense of knowledge (Friedrich August von Hayek Nobel prize speech)

Common sense and a healthy dose of skepticism are necessary when dealing with scientists and science!