Long before Covid-19 debuted on the world stage, giddy lockdown cheerleader Christopher Snowden, famed for his McCarthyist denunciations of lockdown opponents, wrote an article eulogising the public health heretics of yesteryear.
Here are a two choice extracts:
"Although doctors eventually came round to [John] Snow's way of thinking and now idolise him, the fact remains that Snow's heresy was not addressed by coolly assessing the evidence, but by appealing to authority, appealing to consensus and dismissing Snow as a tool of big business."
"Any research suggesting that a policy is misplaced or directed at the wrong target brings down a firestorm upon the heretical scientist, regardless of the quality of the research or the credentials of the researcher. In each case, the response from the establishment is visceral rather than rational. The implications of dogmatic groupthink and intimidation for the pursuit of sound science - and sound policy - are chilling."
The article expressing such unspeakable sentiments resides here (partially paywalled):
And is regurgitated here:
https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2014/09/i-rest-my-case.html
It's also printed in his book.
Oh, how people change. What a sanctimonious traitor to the cause of liberty and rationality.
