Donald Trump watches as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in Washington on Apr. 22, 2020.
Denial does feel life-affirming. It places me against the man, or the mob, or the whoever. But it is also the first of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages for dealing with grief. You have some work to do. Denial ain’t just a river, as Mark Twain probably did not say. e start from a lack of knowledge, but with lots of questions, especially for those who claim to know.
But the criticism does highlight two salient features of current COVID-dominated political culture. The first is that expertise, always a fragile property, has become suspect. The old saying has it that an expert is a person who has read one book; these days, you don’t even have to do that much work. A few hours on websites and you are surely the smartest person in the roomThe second is that calling people stupid is not the best way to make them act smart.
So then what? Well, how about large doses of humility, more education and a great deal of open discourse? John Stuart Mill was rightin the marketplace of ideas, good ones can eventually drive out bad, but this is painful, costly and bloody. It’s not me or you or some other person with an M.D. or a Ph.D. who matters, it’s good arguments that should prevail. This is creative destruction. If science teaches us anything, it’s that previous thinking never lasts.
There is no such thing as 'The Science', 'Science' is not based on a consensus. When you take something & extend it to the point where it has no meaning e.g. Convid-19 = The Apocalypse then it becomes 'A Hoax' & A form of Religion to Deny Basic Freedoms! Post Demian Hammock
Conservatives are against science.