In an interview on the Today Show, December 29, 2022, Peter Alexander asked the Director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, why the American people should trust the recommendations of the CDC. His challenge was based on the brand-new guidelines the CDC has come out with, suggesting that those with COVID-19 now need only to quarantine for the first five days of infection.
Alexander sounded incredulous. The CDC has changed its guidelines so frequently in the two years since the COVID-19 a person could wonder how they determine their guidelines. Based mainly upon information delivered to us by the CDC, the public has become so convinced that COVID-19 is a deadly threat that Americans are “masking up, vaxxing up, and, in many cases, freezing up, refusing to leave the isolation of their homes for anything but the absolute necessities. We’ve been told, and multitudes have believed it, that the way to end this pandemic is to isolate. Now the very people who convinced us that they knew the answer and that it was to hide from the bug tell us we don’t have to hide, even if we have COVID-19, after the fifth day. In the face of accusations that this new guideline is an economic compromise, Alexander asked Walensky, “Why should we trust the CDC?”
Director Walensky’s answer was more revealing than she knew and that most people caught. She said, in roughly her own words (I do not have the exact” quote, “The science concerning COVID-19 has constantly been changing and updated in the course of the two years of this pandemic.” The science, a word that the public has come to define as “the truth” has changed and been updated. But here’s the thing: it would not need to be changed and updated if it were true.
I don’t have a problem with what she said. She was, in fact, accurate. Science needs to change and be updated constantly because science is the quest for knowledge and not knowledge itself. My problem is that the scientist portrays himself as a proclaimer of truth. To the academic world, he is what a preacher is in the religious world. A preacher who cannot be wrong would be crucified in the media these days. But the scientist, who told us he knew what was best for us two years ago, was wrong according to current science.[1]
Science, by very definition, fits into 2 Timothy 3:7.[2] However, it becomes “falsely so-called”[3] whenever it is elevated beyond a search for truth to being truth itself.
[1] Or else current science is wrong according to former science.
[2] 2 Timothy 3:7 (KJV)
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
[3] 1 Timothy 6:20 (KJV)
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
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