There are conclusions that are more true than others, but it gets messy when people start talking policy. Ground level facts have regularly led to horrible policy decisions despite being 'correct' according to the science.
> am I not, objectively speaking, correct, because my opinion on those matters are backed by science?
It is true that shutdowns, distancing, masking are all evidence based methods to contain the pandemic. However, politics is not only about selecting what methods work, but where they are applied, and who bears the cost. There is rarely an objective 'backed by the science' answer across the board.
You're correct, but observably that's not where the political trenches are dug. The wedge issues for the past few years haven't been around "how do we best implement the science", instead they're around fundamental disagreements that the science even exists.
Moving the trenches such that the main problem was trying to decide what the implementation of the shared science-based policy should be would be such a seismic shift in political discourse that I don't think I can visualise what that world would actually look like.
I mean President Trump literally said disparagingly at a rally "Biden will listen to the scientists" and then Biden put "I approve this message" at the end and turned it into an ad.
You can't get any clearer messaging on anti/pro science.
Trump always seems to take himself out of context, we all has accrss to his tweet history, but every missteps is a "joke" or "out of context". He can't even accept the results of a democratic election.
> Ground level facts have regularly led to horrible policy decisions despite being 'correct' according to the science.
Yes but that's because of lack of specificity, isn't it? That is, exactly the science in the lab is what is deployed on a grand scale outside the lab in terms of policy, when the specificities of the real world should have been taken into account.
In any case, with the real-world peculiarities taken into consideration, the underlying science would be the same nonetheless. It would be preposterous to say that just because vaccines and masks work in the lab doesn't mean they won't work in the real world.
There are conclusions that are more true than others, but it gets messy when people start talking policy. Ground level facts have regularly led to horrible policy decisions despite being 'correct' according to the science.
> am I not, objectively speaking, correct, because my opinion on those matters are backed by science?
It is true that shutdowns, distancing, masking are all evidence based methods to contain the pandemic. However, politics is not only about selecting what methods work, but where they are applied, and who bears the cost. There is rarely an objective 'backed by the science' answer across the board.