"My final point is about science. When scientists have spoken up against the (COVID) lockdown policy, there has been enormous pushback: "You're endangering lives."
Science cannot operate in an environment like that. I don't know all the answers to COVID; no one does. Science ought to be able to clarify the answers. But science can't do its job in an environment where anyone who challenges the status quo gets shut down or cancelled."
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.
This is one paragraph from an article summarizing a panel presentation. The speaker was Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., and Ph.D. (economics) -- a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University
The article is from the October 2020 IMPRIMUS, a free newsletter with 5.6 million subscribers. From Hillsdale College, in Michigan -- the only libertarian college in America. I've been reading their free newsletter since the early 1970s.