Public service announcement: there is an extremely easy way to tell when you can trust the experts and “follow the science”, versus when you can’t.
The corruption of science has a purpose, and the purpose is to provide rationalizations for the assertion of political power.
Anytime you hear scientists and experts saying something that operates as a rationale for politicians to Do Something, the way to bet is that you’re being scammed.
Conversely, politically neutral science is almost never corrupted by anything worse than petty careerism. Because the incentives aren’t there.
Some of us learned this 40 years ago from contemplating the “scientific” literature on firearms policy. Took the lies and gaslighting around COVID to make the general public aware.
The biggest political earthquake is yet to come, around the utter neo-Lysenkoist travesty that “climate science” has become.