Do not trust any authority without justice first
Responding to Kevin Bass
I recently read a Newsweek piece (archive1, archive2) by Kevin Bass (website) (ref:
) titled “It's Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COIVD and It Cost Lives” (‘COIVD” typo in original) and I wanted to offer constructive criticism. Toward the end he says “Restoring trust in public health—and our democracy—depends on it.“I assume he’s a real person who means what they say. Though in the bigger picture that sort of message doesn’t go nearly far enough. Trying to “restore trust” without first achieving justice for wrongs can only ever be apologetics for the status quo. We should NOT return to 2019 levels of trust and confidence in “science” and “democracy.” 2020-2022 revealed how vacuous the expertise of claimed authorities was and STILL IS. The solution isn’t to let the authorities apologize and move on, the solution is to pursue justice for all the wrongs and do root cause analysis followed by hard institutional changes so it can never happen again. Only then, and after many years of good behavior, can authorities ever hope to deserve regaining trust.
I note that
thinks similarly.
"The solution isn’t to let the authorities apologize and move on, the solution is to pursue justice for all the wrongs and do root cause analysis followed by hard institutional changes so it can never happen again. Only then, and after many years of good behavior, can authorities ever hope to deserve regaining trust."
Yep.
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