Originally Posted by
skygeek
The "collective scientific" community consists of people just like you and me, afraid to lose their jobs and forced to toe the line "or else". This has been proven time and time again recently with multiple high profile cancellations. You cancel enough noisy people and, voilą, your "collective scientific" community suddenly takes whatever shape is needed.
No, it really doesn't. Now you're just showing that you've never worked in a research field. It might make you feel smarter or more in control, thinking that all the scientists are just sheep following a party line so they don't lose their jobs while you know the only truth is coming from the YouTube videos you've found, but that is just a way to feel better in uncertain times. Calling out dangerous misinformation isn't a high profile cancellation, even if people might like to claim that as a way to defend themselves when they are called out for spreading lies.
But the second part of your paragraph is correct, in that a lot of high profile noisy people, loud and proud anti-vaxxers, have spent a couple of quiet weeks on a ventilator lately before gaining a more permanent silence. Turns out the virus didn't care about their political views or facebook memes, it cancelled them anyway. Now *that* is cancel culture....
