I just need to copy and paste this every time someone on the fediverse posts anything about COVID.

@freemo god knows how people conducted their lives before peer review

@skells they believed in things like draining blood for the common cold and a lot of people died. Thankfully we have come a long way since that.

@freemo indeed, a great deal of science was conducted against an uphill battle against public prejudice and vested interests

thankfully, on a long enough time scale, the truth tends to out

@freemo but yeah, not to put too fine a point on it, the experts are clearly not doing their jobs across the board

critical thinking means critical thinking, not *necessarily* following the current academically accepted methodology of research to the exclusion of all else