The COVID-19 Panic Shows Us Why Science Needs Skeptics

Tags: Health, Media and Culture, Strategy

07/24/2020 Peter St. Onge

Every major scientific advance challenged the “settled science” of its day and was often denounced as pernicious and false, even dangerous.

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Original Article: "The COVID-19 Panic Shows Us Why Science Needs Skeptics".

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