You have a relatively small number of very powerful science bureaucrats who surround themselves with people that won’t tell them that they’ve gone wrong. That’s why that fringe epidemiology thing is so telling. You have these outside experts telling you you’re wrong, “They must be fringe, because our group thinks it’s right.” They thought they were right. They thought they were so right that they could exclude outside voices. There was a doubling down as the evidence started getting worse and worse about the policies they suggested, or that their reading of the science is wrong. It’s very
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