Follow the science might be the right call, but not in the manner that Dad4 follows the science. More along the lines of follow the money. How ironic is it going to be if its determined that science created, mishandled and covered up the virus? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there sure is a significant amount of circumstantial evidence that links the virus to the Wuhan lab. Combine that with the fact the other scientists rallied against the conspiracy without any investigation and you have a very troubling scenario with science. Like any other profession, just because someone is a scientist, infectious disease researcher, epidemiologist, etc doesn't give them instant credibility and shouldn't be unquestionably followed like a cult prophet. Academics are as influenced by bias, politics and money as much as anyone else. Potentially even more so since their conclusions are developed in a lab, or on paper, based on controlled variables. They aren't subject to the light of the real world where actual results are impacted by a multiple of uncontrollable variables. It's been a bad year for science.