Covid, lockdown and the retreat of scientific debate
An article in The Spectator, 12 October 2021, by Martin Kulldorff, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/covid-lockdown-and-the-retreat-of-scientific-debate
Science is about rational disagreement, the questioning and testing of orthodoxy and the constant search for truth. With something like lockdown – an untested policy that affects millions – rigorous debate and the basics of verification/falsification are more important than ever…
But with lockdown, science is in danger of being suppressed by politics. Lockdown moved instantly from untested theory to unchallengeable orthodoxy: where dissenters face personal attack. Understandable on social media perhaps, but it has now crept into the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in a recent article about the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD)…
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Note: the Great Barrington Declaration has over 860,000 signatures!