TRUST THE SCIENCE
But First Be Sure You Know How Science Works
“Education is replacing ignorance with misinformation” – science professors at UC Berkeley
Some Basics
Having earned my MS in biochemical genetics, I know how science works. We don’t vote – there is no consensus. Scientists propose a hypothesis and then create ways to test their theories. Many major names have gotten it wrong. Everyone was jazzed when Linus Pauling “got” the structure of DNA. But he was wrong. He had the base pairs on the outside, which didn’t make sense chemically. Watson and Crick solved it, having immense help from the X-ray crystallography of Rosalind Franklin. From this basis, research continued to understand how DNA and then RNA worked. These details and additional research made it possible for Jennifer Doudna to develop a gene editing technology (CRISPR).
The story of CRISPR really shows how science works as many people contributed ideas and research on it, amidst a lot of conflict, cooperation and coopetition. Implementing this powerful gene editing tool, (which was instrumental in developing Covid vaccines), will take more false starts, wrong hypotheses and lot of humility and hard work.
Medicine is science applied, but it is art AND science. Doctors learn from each patient and from each other, but they also experiment and adapt their procedures constantly.
Scientists vs. Politicians
Scientists may get into politics at times, but they are not politicians. Most of them are dedicated to trying to understand nature in all its twists and turns. However, once you start running agencies for the government, it’s easy to get co-opted into being a politician, letting political considerations override or substitute for your scientific opinions. The other problem is that when you set policy, you are telling people what they must do, based on data that does not give that kind of clear direction.
We saw this with Covid. Knowing masks were pretty useless, they were mandated, because scientists didn’t have anything else to offer early on. The concern that the virus was manmade, and perhaps more lethal than anything we had seen before from a coronavirus made everyone more nervous.
But remember, people seek political office for power. The power of telling everyone how they were going to live, what freedoms they would be allowed and what they would have to give up, and what choices they could make was addictive. The whole course of Covid was an immense power-trip for politicians and scientist-politicians like Fauci. And since it is impossible for governments to impose one law on you and a different one for me, it became one-size-fits-all mandates, which turned out to fit almost no one.
To make it worse, that taste of immense power has caused an addiction in too many politicians. Governor Nuisance in CA now wants to tell doctors what they can and cannot do, as well as what they can prescribe or risk losing their licenses. The outcomes will be horrible.
What Can We Do?
Most people have a very limited scientific background and won’t do the work I did to read the original papers on Covid, the significant testing of cheap and effective drugs like hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and fluvoxamine. But what do we do when we have a medical problem? We trust our doctors. If we have concerns, we get a second opinion. We don’t go to our local representative and ask them, because they won’t know.
We need to make sure that no state ties a doctor’s hands when it comes to practicing medicine. They are the ones keeping up on the scientific studies. Do your own research if you want to, but understand that your doctor can tailor treatments and protocols to you. Rarely do they believe in cookie cutter medicine (and if you find one like that, move on to another).
Resist mandates. Even Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of using mRNA as a way to treat illnesses, (though he did not invent the vaccines themselves), won’t take further vaccinations. The power of numbers is incredible. If we start listening to our own doctors, trust our own sensibility and refuse to yield to government mandates, our health will be better and our lives will be freer. Our country was founded on the principle that though we are stronger together and that we come together with some common goals and belief, this is one country that allows true diversity of opinions and choices. We need to seize this back.
It's time to take a stand, both in your personal choices and in your votes. Nothing matters more right now.
