It should be a banner time for science and scientists. All we hear from official sources is praise. “Trust TheScience™!” vies with “Follow TheScience™!” and “Believe TheScience™!” as official slogans for the past two years. The ironic thing about our current situation? Even as we all seem to worshipfully refer to TheScience™, actual science is in graver danger than ever before. And most people haven’t even noticed.

That is only possible because the average person has not a clue what “science” actually is and what conditions are required for “science” to flourish. Science is not an accepted body of knowledge that no one is allowed to challenge on pain of censorship. Science is not simply anything people with credentials and lab coats say it is, even if they have the power to silence their critics. Actual science relies on quantifiable data, not mere opinion. Freedom of thought is essential to science. Science is supposed to be self-correcting through rational debate.

Currently, however, actual science is being suppressed in favor of an officially enforced orthodoxy. https://orthodoxreflections.com/can-we-save-science-from-orthodoxy/