Whether it’s pesticides, genetically modified foods, AIDs, or COVID-19, the silencing of debate occurs regularly in scientific circles, particularly with big contentious issues, says Prof. Brian Martin of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong.
Martin recently co-authored a study into COVID-19 censorship revealing the “extreme and unprecedented” measures used by governments, medical boards, media outlets, and Big Tech to silence opposing views on pandemic science.
The professor, who has authored several studies into censorship, says the difference with COVID-19 was the involvement of Big Tech and the scale of censorship.
“With nuclear power, pesticides, or GMOs, there are people affected by those, but not to the scale of COVID-19,” he told The Epoch Times….