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In an open letter in 2020 more than 1,200 academics argued that mass-protesting George Floyd’s death during lockdown was safe, while visiting a dying relative in hospital was not. This helped torpedo the reputation of science. A prominent left-leaning scientist told me recently: ‘The pandemic has destroyed my trust in scientific experts.’

Science has always behaved like a cult to some extent, enforcing dogma and persecuting heretics, but it has grown far worse with wokery. Science as a philosophy is still great, but science as an institution is about as true to its philosophy as the church was under the Borgias, and as ripe for reformation.