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Matthew B Crawford has degrees in physics and political philosophy. He is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Unherd published his piece How science has been corrupted: the pandemic has revealed a darkly authoritarian side to expertise and he gave an excellent interview with Freddie Sayers in the same link.

“Pharmaceutical companies have, on a significant scale, paid physicians to praise, recommend and prescribe their products, and recruited researchers to put their names to articles ghost-written by the firms which are then placed in scientific and professional journals. Worse, the clinical trials whose results are relied upon by federal agencies in deciding whether to approve drugs as safe and effective are generally conducted or commissioned by the pharmaceutical companies themselves“.

Different opinions, discussion, questioning, debate and critical analysis are only heresy in totalitarian states. They are necessary in the (once) free world, for new knowledge and course correction on erroneous policy and false truths. Without them, corruption and criminality get to lead the way.

Robert F Kennedy Jr has just published a book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. Here he talks about it with Senta Depuydt of Children’s Health Defense in Europe. “The distressing thing for me is that the liberalism that I grew up in … many many traditional liberal values, the values of critical thinking, constitutional rights, freedom of speech, due process, jury trials, justice, tolerance, patience, intellectual curiosity, intellectual integrity. All of those things have now been abandoned. There is no more critical thinking. We are immersed in a kind of tribalism where if Tony Fauci says something, it has to be true, if Donald Trump says something it has to be false, and vice versa. And nobody is really doing critical thinking. And in the United States I’ve seen the liberal party which was always the champion of constitutional rights, walk away from all of our constitutional rights. They’ve become the advocates for censorship…“.

“Look beyond the “it’s safe and effective” mantra and ask some questions. Listen to some of the doctors and scientists out there who have a different view, who have been censored.“. NZ GP Dr Alison Goodwin, 3 July 2021