better. Healthcare is incredible compared to 50 years ago. We carry all the knowledge in the world in our pockets. We have the resources to let private companies send payloads and now people to space. Diseases once thought incurable are now outpatient. It is unbelievable really what a blessing "science" is to the world.

I know it is popular to point at is failures but I much prefer an educated hypothesis to the "get a hunch bet a bunch" crowd that seems to be vocal.

Being wrong doesn't discredit someone necessarily. But being wrong and doubling down on it does. The problem is we are too quick to point out the flip-flops.

And since I assume at least part of this is pointed at the pandemic response - I'm quick to give epidemiologists a pass. Think of what they have to work with:

1. This was a new disease with at the time apparently frightening mortality and infection rates. It had symptoms of spreading like the flu, so they did what they could and treated it like the flu - which was an educated guess

2. Then the learn that unlike the flu that is far more likely to be spread through contact and surfaces, it spreads through the air. That knowledge changed how we reacted.

3. They also at first thought that getting people on ventilators was necessary and then found it was often killing people. They were doing it too soon and for too long. They can treat people better now, and mortality is going down. All because of science.

3. They learned to contain it more, and it wasn't like they first thought so they can open some things.

4. Science will lead to the rapid development of a vaccine.

5. Science will help us hopefully avoid similar outbreaks in the future.

I wish they got everything right from the start and I wish people on both sides would be quick to forgive mistakes and also less likely to adhere to science being absolute with religious like fervor.

But yes, science is clearly and indisputably a good thing, this from a very religious person.