Dr. Anthony Fauci confessed on Tuesday that guidelines to keep six feet of separation to limit the spread of COVID-19 “sort of just appeared” without scientific input. Photo from Getty Images “How can we restore public trust in institutions?”
This is one of the biggest questions of our time. Something all would-be sages stroke their chins about.
And it is a problem. In recent years, we, the public, have lost faith in institution after institution. Often with very good reason. We’ve seen a multi-tiered justice system. We’ve seen the politicization of every government agency. And we’ve had profound doubts cast — by Democrats and Republicans alike — on the security of the voting system.
But I doubt any institution has lost as much faith so fast as scientific “experts.”
Not long ago, when “the scientists” said something, most of us listened.
Then the years of COVID came.
At the start of the pandemic, most of us still listened. But today? Research shows that public faith in scientists has fallen off the cliff since the pandemic. People who say they have “a great deal of confidence” in scientists have halved in a few years.
And no one is more responsible for that than Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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