Childhood Vaccines: A Case Study in Epistemological Dissolution
This is part of a series of essays that examine the current epistemological crisis. PART I: The Fauci Affair and Our Epistemological CrisisPART II: A
Category: Science
The Long Dissolution
A few did not put it aside, and from 1962 forward there existed in America a small population of people who had understood something the majority had declined to understand — and who would be proved right again, and again, and again, for sixty years, all the while being called cranks the entire time.
How We Got Here: The Hollow Stasis
It was an age, aptly titled the ‘Wonder Years’ by a nostalgic show of my childhood, where the question ‘How would we know?’ was on everyone’s minds, confident that they would continue to answer it with little miracles of modern life.
A Theory of Epistemological Stasis and Crisis
A culture that has lost its courts is easy to name and hard to picture, so before going further it is worth slowing down and laying out the machinery — what the courts actually are, what they sit on top of, and what exactly gives way when they fall.
The Fauci Affair and Our Epistemological Crisis
Even when the underlying facts are public, undisputed in their particulars, available to anyone who wants them, the country divides cleanly in two the moment anyone asks what they show. We have grown so used to this that we have stopped finding it strange.
It is very strange.