The Scientific Establishment Is Turning 'Science' Into a Dogmatic Tool of Oppression | Opinion
Opinion by Jay Bhattacharya & Bryce Nickels • 5h
The COVID era has been difficult for scientists whose ideas run against the grain of powerful scientific and government bureaucracies. Even for university scientists with unblemished reputations in the before times, the price of speaking up has been vilification by social media companies, the media, and, unfortunately, even scientific journals and our fellow scientists. It is a wonder that any scientists dared to speak out, with only their commitment to the truth as a reason to do so.
In a recent letter to the House, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the Biden-Harris administration "repeatedly pressured" his social media empire to censor speech it didn't like. His company often acceded to those demands, and "with the benefit of hindsight and new information," Zuckerberg now admits it was wrong. At the behest of the government, Zuckerberg's Facebook censored even true speech about dangerous gain-of-function research, school closures, and COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
No scientist wants the information they share on social media to be labeled as "misinformation" or to have their accounts suspended for scientific speech, which Zuckerberg's under-qualified censors often did. Such labels represent a direct smear on scientists' reputations—the coin of the realm in science; as a consequence of this censorship regime, many scientists opt to stay silent or watch from the sidelines, not being willing to risk such a label.
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