In Praise of Vax “Anti-Intellectualism” By James Reed
A Big Pharma executive has lashed out at the “anti-intellectualism” of people who are sceptical of experts/ technocrats in the Covid mandate. This scepticism extends to questioning the vaccines and even the masks. Well, today we published a reference guide with over 1,000 mostly peer-reviewed articles detailing the problem of adverse effects with the Covid vaccines. As well, last week we cited an editorial in The British Medical Journal calling for transparency about the initial data that was submitted to the FDA to get these experimental jabs approved. There was no independent scientific analysis or criticism. This talk of “anti-intellectualism” is therefore more appropriate to the pro-vaccine tribe.
“One of America’s top pharmaceutical executives has warned that a growing climate of anti-intellectualism was blighting the global response to COVID-19, and questioned whether policymakers were capable of preparing the public for the next pandemic.
David Ricks, chief executive of Eli Lilly, said this was especially true in the Anglo-Saxon world where scepticism about expertise had become a driving force behind vaccine hesitancy and a failure to implement proper controls to tame the pandemic, including mask wearing.
“All this vaccine hesitancy, climate hesitancy you know, it’s all anti-intellectualism, really, anti-expertise,” Mr Ricks said.
“And in a world filled with too much information and people not equipped to digest it, maybe that’s where we land. I don’t know. I mean, it’s kind of sad.
“We have the tools and the technology to pretty much make this [COVID-19] a liveable, everyday condition right now. We’re just not using them.”
Mr Ricks said a failure to do so would prolong the massive disruption to society for years or even decades to come.
More than 840,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, which is by far the highest death toll of any nation, even though US pharmaceutical companies have been at the forefront of developing effective vaccines and treatments. Just 63 per cent of the US population is fully vaccinated due to hesitancy among the public about COVID-19 jabs.
Mr Ricks said governments in many developed nations had bungled their response to the pandemic and a lack of co-operation between rich and low-income countries had left everyone vulnerable to the emergence of new coronavirus variants.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o102
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