And it’s true. The so-called experts certainly have made themselves look foolish over the last three years: Public health leaders like Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Anthony Fauci make false claims, or contradict themselves repeatedly, on subjects related to the pandemic response, while leading scientists, like Dr. Peter Hotez in the U.S. and Dr. Christian Drosten in Germany, are equally susceptible to such flip-flops and lies.
Then there are the internationally renowned medical researchers, like Dr. Eric Topol, who repeatedly commit obvious errors in interpreting COVID-19-related research studies.
All of these figures publicly and aggressively promoted anti-public health policies, including universal masking, social distancing, mass testing and quarantining of healthy people, lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
It seems like an open-and-shut case: Dumb policies and dumb people in charge of those policies.
This might be true in a few individual cases of public health or medical leaders who really are incapable of understanding even high school-level science.
However, if we look at leading pandemic public health and medical experts as a group — a group consisting of the most powerful, widely published and well-paid researchers and scientists in the world — that simple explanation sounds much less convincing.