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Because that is not how science works. That is not how reason works.

And it most definitely should not be how medical science works.

The business with 6 ft social distancing was my first inkling that something very bad had taken root and proliferated in the CDC. Something I had first seen as a graduate student studying psychotherapy, and subsequently had started recognizing in the rest of medicine. A kind of epistemological disease.

A lot of people were invested in the idea that the CDC's..."missteps"... were the fault of the Trump administration. But while some things improved under Biden, many did not.

I recognized the pathology and knew it was not specific to any presidential administration.

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