Commentary
As a truth-seeking journalist writing on COVID-19 policies surrounding the young, I have been bewildered by the scientific establishment’s failure to have an honest, rational discussion of the data.
Being an ordinary, critical-thinking person with no scientific expertise, my impression was always that the costs and benefits of a medical intervention must be carefully weighed before making a decision. Moreover, I assumed there’s no “one-size-fits-all” medicine—everything from Tylenol, prescription drugs, to novel psychedelic therapies—that can be universally recommended.
According to the foremost public health experts, I was wrong.
This first dawned on me when I watched CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta last year refuse to acknowledge the risk of vaccine myocarditis in young boys on Joe Rogan’s podcast, then appear on CNN shortly after doubling-down on his assertions by presenting a study finding infection-induced myocarditis poses a greater risk compared to the vaccine (across the population, as opposed to young men specifically)….