Why Science Is Losing to Authoritarian Mass Murderers

Science depends on questions, exploration and skepticism to find the truth, but this natural scientific course has been upended by authoritarian public health and the 'war' against a virus.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• During the pandemic, skepticism has been met with backlash and censorship, acts that have only further hindered science, which depends on healthy skepticism

• John Ioannidis reported that by August 2021, 330,000 scientific papers had been published about COVID-19, written by about 1 million different people; the massive scientific involvem…