kickingandscreaming
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Sure there are politics. Plenty of researchers were perfectly willing to make misleading statements about covid origins, possibly to protect their grant funding in the future.
But, what better option is there? Politicians? Pod cast hosts? News anchors? Pretend I understand everything all on my own? None of those options looks at all viable as an information source.
Grace states it concisely above.the viable option is to let it all hang out there, to engage in active debate instead of censorship, and to let people act like adults and make up their own decisions and bear their own consequences.
I'll add to it that I believe censorship makes things worse. It keeps the drama going. It drives a bigger divide by promoting uncivil accusations to go back in forth. As the emotion on both sides rises, rationality decreases, and tribalism is reinforced. Simply state the case against a viewpoint and move on.