If the concept of peer review through scientific journals bothers you so much, then ignore it. You don't understand it. It's not your problem. In fact, nothing that relates to science or expertise or even rationality is your problem. Just think of them as opinions with Sharpies, like Trump. If all those things bother you so much, go tell your dog, and then give it a treat so it will forget that you just vomited your perpetual loser, head-in-the-sand grievance fetish all over it.
Is it possible that Senda got it wrong with "teller," and in reality what you told him was that you are a snitch?
Once heavy-handed politics enters the picture, science goes out the window. Everyone used to understand that.
Covid researchers - just like researchers hired by the oil companies - know where their next round of research funding is coming from, so we can expect the results they'll find will agree with the political requirements. Maybe they would anyway, but in this environment it becomes questionable. I'd rather hear from real doctors with real patients than bureaucrats with medical degrees. For some reason those doctors have to be censored, and their medical licenses threatened. I'd rather hear from journalists that may ask uncomfortable questions, than party cheerleaders. I'd rather hear from independent experts than governors and a president that don't even have science degrees. I don't believe one size fits all, and that only vaccines and masks that don't really work very well are the only answer for everyone.
We've been lied to quite a lot the past several decades, and the trend is not going in the right direction. Why wouldn't we assume the people who have lied about so much in the past are lying to us now? Provably they have been on some covid issues, and seem to be on other covid issues. At this point, if something appears questionable these people don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
That's all. But feel free to think whatever you want - you do you.
