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Over the past two years, we have heard media, public health officials, and politicians use the phrase ‘follow the science.’ As if expressing a battle cry or allegiance to some figure, this phrase is used to express commitment to ‘doing the correct thing’ and attempts to remove bias or politics from the decisions that politicians make with ever-present bias.
The problem with ‘following the science’ is that science is an observer, measurer, and descriptor. These fundamental qualities of scientific inquiry make it an excellent secretary (documenting and informing) but a dreadful general on any battlefield. In fact, when any politician or public health official invokes ‘science’ as the decisive general leading the charge on their current arena, recognize that people/individuals make decisions, not methods or data.
Invoking ‘science’ to lead and make the difficult and unpopular decisions is a sleight of hand by the actual individual making them. The ‘leader’ is using his power to decide a course of action at the same time sidestepping accountability. The problem is that this is the opposite of true leadership.
Today’s discussion looks at a technocrat in the FDA and his testimony/declarations to a federal court regarding the COVID-19 Vaccine, Peter Marks, MD. His statements are in stark contrast to the real-world application and intervention of this Vaccine over the past 15 months. His statements resort to grasping at old data and circular reasoning regarding the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 injection.
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