Comment by tazedsoul

Those of us in science who are genuinely interested in the truth (of nature, of the world), and not the exercise of justifying some religious-esque dogma of our own unconscious beliefs, seem increasingly outnumbered and outshouted by the orthodox choir. It is frightening because “science” now carries with it a powerful authoritarian connotation. That the lab leak was written off so early, and whatever the cost of that to society, is a consequence of this. Our age may be one of dogma masquerading as science. But this emperor lacks clothes.