I thank goodness for science and offer love to my friends
While we may disagree about vaccines and mandates, we still have science to separate fact from fiction and friends to love
Thank goodness the vast majority of our medical profession ignore the mainstream media, the rightwing rags, the leftist loons, the hype, the memes and the magical thinking of the small group who have stolen the term ‘wellness’.
Thank goodness they make measurements and collect data.
Thank goodness there are people who think about how we know what we know. Thank goodness there are people who remember how easily we mislead ourselves and who create robust methodologies for separating fact from fiction — so that we can invent solutions that work. And who then repeatedly check whether what they think works really works — in case they made a mistake.
For all the human failings of scientists, I am grateful we have developed a powerful methodology for determining what works and what does not in the physical world.
Thank goodness for science.
PS Politicians do not do science. They make political choices that may or may not be backed by science. Issues of freedom are not about science. Science cannot tell us what to value or when to preference individual freedoms over the common good (or the common good over individual freedoms). Science can only tell us things like whether a vaccine works or does not work and give us some basis for predicting the consequences of our political and moral choices.
