
Originally Posted by
JamesWales
The term "conspiracy theory" has definitely become part of what we may call the "culture wars", with people deploying it as a means to shut people down.
As if in 2020 or even 2021 we knew anything about the vaccine really. I took it, I encouraged others to as well, but I can understand why people were sceptical and I think as a society we need some scepticism, and science definitely needs it to.
This technocratic idea that experts, scientists or whoever cannot be questioned isn't really how expertise and science evolves. They absolutely should be challenged, more so than others.