The catastrophic failure of science worship during the COVID hysteria presents an opportunity for our side. Science-skeptical discourse will certainly gain steam in the coming months/years.

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It's a great opportunity provided that you don't come off as a crank, which is easy if you point out only that which is so obvious that no ideological motivation is necessary to say it. For example:

  1. For science to be useful requires a foundation of trust and there are reasons we don't have it

  2. The demands of making a living as a scientist are often at odds with actually practicing the scientific method. See scientody vs. scientistry