“a wholesale war against reason and the idea of truth.”
To me this is the most dangerous virus destroying our society. The twin pillars of western society have always been Biblical truth for morality and scientific truth for nature.
The worst part is this extends just as much to the right as the left. No public figure argues for moral principles by quoting scripture. The anti-vax movement has found fertile ground among supposed conservatives after escaping from its home in the Green Party.
“Anti-Vax movement”? I think you’re giving a good illustration of what this article is about.
I think there are many people who are justifiably skeptical or wary of a months old vaccine that hadn’t or hasn’t been tested through peer reviewed clinical trials for both safety and efficacy, and coupled with that an incessant advertising campaign to take it regardless of age, sex, pregnancy, comorbidities, adding to that with the absence of any mention of herd immunity reached through natural infecfion.
Anyone who beings these issues up are branded “Anti Science”, and with a “guilt by association” type of character association. It doesn’t necessarily follow. The people who are literally screaming “Follow the Science!”, they have no idea what science is. Even St. Fauci, the patron saint of all things Covid-19, declared any criticism of him, is automatically “anti science”; and you wouldn’t want to be “anti science” would you?
I’m gonna call that BS, and this is EXACTLY what is being described in this excellent article.