(in Social Science especially) is ALL about credentials, and actually has only a glancing relationship with actual competence. Yes, credentials mean something. But not actually all that much, other than in hands-on areas.
The “experts” told us that COVID came from a wet market, that two weeks of isolation would flatten the curve, that lockdowns posed few health risks, that closed schools posed few developmental harms, that masks prevented transmission, that natural immunity provided no protection, that “vaccines” provided total protection, and that those same untested and experimental injections caused no serious side effects. The “experts” were wrong, but they held the most fashionable opinions...
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