> Honestly, that's what all the science-denying cranks say. You may not be such a person, but you need to be aware of the mindset of many people making this claim.
It's also what science advocates like e.g. Carl Sagan[1] says, because it's true. "Science deniers" may be wrong about other things, but not about this.
The truth does not fear questions, and does not require people to believe in it.
> With regards to the retardation of the spread of infectious disease, that is robust science. We've spent over 100 years developing and practicing it, too. Our success rate has been incredible.
We don't seem to really be making significant headway stopping these respiratory diseases. There's a new seasonal influenza every year, and then there's the common cold sloshing around on top of that. These annual global epidemics seem to be washing over us with such regularity they're a fact of life in modern society. Most of them less severe than Covid, for certain, but I think you're overstating our ability to stop them.
[1] e.g. "If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
It's also what science advocates like e.g. Carl Sagan[1] says, because it's true. "Science deniers" may be wrong about other things, but not about this.
The truth does not fear questions, and does not require people to believe in it.
> With regards to the retardation of the spread of infectious disease, that is robust science. We've spent over 100 years developing and practicing it, too. Our success rate has been incredible.
We don't seem to really be making significant headway stopping these respiratory diseases. There's a new seasonal influenza every year, and then there's the common cold sloshing around on top of that. These annual global epidemics seem to be washing over us with such regularity they're a fact of life in modern society. Most of them less severe than Covid, for certain, but I think you're overstating our ability to stop them.
[1] e.g. "If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."