Throughout the pandemic politicians and officials have appealed to data and “the science.” But employing the definite article (“the”) misled us into believing that scientific opinion, like mathematics, is certain, unambiguous, and in monolithic agreement. Writing in Just the News, Michael Fumento documents ten ways that public health officials got “the science” seriously wrong.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


