https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425
« Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments… the underlying behaviour is troubling. »
« The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency—a time when it is even more important to safeguard science. »
« Politicians often claim to follow the science, but that is a misleading oversimplification. Science is rarely absolute. It rarely applies to every setting or every population. It doesn’t make sense to slavishly follow science or evidence. A better approach is for politicians, the publicly appointed decision makers, to be informed and guided by science when they decide policy for their public. But even that approach retains public and professional trust only if science is available for scrutiny and free of political interference, and if the system is transparent and not compromised by conflicts of interest. »
« Suppression of science and scientists is not new… Globally, people, policies, and procurement are being corrupted by political and commercial agendas. »
« Government appointees are able to ignore or cherry pick science—another form of misuse—and indulge in anti-competitive practices that favour their own products and those of friends and associates. »
« Politicisation of science was enthusiastically deployed by some of history’s worst autocrats and dictators, and it is now regrettably commonplace in democracies. The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in power. And, as the powerful become more successful, richer, and further intoxicated with power, the inconvenient truths of science are suppressed. »
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