[rlmorel]

I know.

The other thing that irritates me to the point of infuriation is their penchant to substitute consensus for science, especially since they regard consensus as valid when they pick and choose whose “consensus” will qualify something as “science”.

Skepticism is a foundational underpinning of science.

In all of this, my respect for medical science has plummeted to nearly non-existence. And I work in medicine.

The same people I see telling me to “trust the science” are the same people denying that XY chromosomes mean a person is a male, and XX chromosomes means a person is a female.

[Jim Noble]

There's a long (but great) writeup on ivermectin, you can skip down to the analysis where she points out (cautiously) how the culture war has infected and practically destroyed COVID science.