Another from UnHerd - ⁣https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oro0ttU2_A



⁣Freddie Sayers meets Matthew B. Crawford.

‘Following the science’ is a phrase that we have heard a lot of this year, but what does it actually mean? Over the past year, science has shifted from a mode of inquiry to a form of authority that you are not allowed to question in fear of being labelled ‘anti-science’. To understand how and why this has occurred, we spoke to philosopher and writer Matthew B. Crawford, who has a full-length piece in UnHerd on this very subject.

// Timecodes //
00:24 - Intro
01:43 - Political legitimacy in a pandemic
04:41 - Science vs scientism
10:01 - The crisis of scientific authority
12:44 - Commercial science
16:10 - Climate-gate
19:18 - Scientific and moral knowledge monopoly
21:21 - Morality as a public health problem
27:21 - Over-scepticism
30:47 - China
33:38 - Politics of fear
35:47 - Society post-pandemic