But the Times is just a symptom of a larger problem. The COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t just a public health crisis; it was a stress test for science itself. And, as we now know, science failed. The very principles that were supposed to safeguard scientific integrity—those outlined decades ago by sociologist Robert K. Merton—were casually tossed aside whenever they became inconvenient.
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