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What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About Science

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My article for the Wall Street Journal:The Covid-19 pandemic has stretched the bond between the public and the scientific profession as never before.

Scientists have been revealed to be neither omniscient demigods whose opinions automatically outweigh all political disagreement, nor unscrupulous fraudsters pursuing a political agenda under a cloak of impartiality.

Somewhere between the two lies the truth: Science is a flawed and all too human affair, but it can generate timeless truths, and reliable practical guidance, in a way that other approaches cannot.In a lecture at Cornell University in 1964, the physicist Richard Feynman defined the scientific method.

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