Off Topic: 43 anti-science things in pandemic era
Anti-science Naked Emperor Oct 13, 2022
Insinuating that the lab leak hypothesis is a racist conspiracy theory is anti-science
Closing international borders to keep a virus out when the virus is already established in-country is anti-science
Panicked killing of Danish mink was anti-science . Public health apologizing for the mistake is pro-science
Redefining herd immunity to exclude immunity conferred by disease recovery is anti-science
Sending covid infected patients back to nursing homes to keep hospital beds empty was anti-science
Lockdowns and other trickle down epidemiology are anti-science
Science bureaucrats using their power to smear scientists who disagree with them is anti-science
Instituting lockdowns & restrictions on the basis of overly-simplistic covid models is anti-science
Pretending there is a scientific consensus on lockdown and so much else when there is not a scientific consensus (Especially while censoring sceptical voices) is anti-science
Arbitrarily dividing society into essential and non-essential is anti-science
Ignoring the obvious and devastating economic costs of policy is anti-science
Censorship of scientific debate is anti-science . Literally.
Zoom school is anti-science
Politically partisan public health is anti-science
Not permitting healthy people to leave home for more than an hour, even for exercise, is anti-science
Jumping off the sidewalk to avoid the breath of an unmasked person walking by is anti-science
Shutting down kids’ sports is anti-science
Public health shaming people for not following public health dictates is anti-science
Forcing school kids to eat six feet apart from each other, outdoors and in silence was anti-science
Redefining health to be synonymous with the avoidance of a single infectious disease is anti-science
Six-foot social distancing is anti-science
Not letting family members visit dying relatives is anti-science
Contact tracing to contain a highly infectious and aerosolized respiratory virus is anti-science
Zero covid is anti-science
Mask mandates are anti-science
White washing the harm done to children by school closures by glibly asserting that ‘kids are resilient’ is anti-science
Institutionalized hypochondria is anti-science
Masking toddlers is anti-science
Requiring waiters to mask to serve unmasked patrons is anti-science
Noble lies are bad public health practice and anti-science
Pharmaceutical company funding of on-air news media and professional medical organizations is anti-science
Policing private doctor patient communication for non-CDC approved content is anti-science
Science & medicine are the common inheritance of all, regardless of party. Medical and scientific professional societies officially endorsing political candidates and thereby alienating half the population is anti-science
Not rapidly running randomized trials to evaluate off-patent early treatment options and denigrating doctors and patients who tried them (“horse paste”) when better options were not available is anti-science
Ignoring age-stratification in risk in determining pandemic policy and vaccine recommendations is anti-science
Vaccine discrimination is socially divisive and is anti-science
Public health experts have an obligation to speak respectfully with everyone, including people who oppose their recommendations (such as on vaccines). Guilt-by-association attacks on experts who fulfil this obligation are anti-science
Asserting that a vaccine stops transmission when it does not stop transmission is anti-science
Ignoring immunity after covid recovery is anti-science
Vaccine mandates have demolished public trust and are anti-science
Pausing childhood vaccination programs and tuberculosis treatment in poor countries because of fear of covid led to many unnecessary deaths and is anti-science
Ignoring legitimate vaccine injury is anti-science
Declaring oneself to be The Science itself is anti-science ;