‘Expert credibility’ died in 2020

If there were ever a time to “question authority,” as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. 2020 will go down in American history as the year that public health “experts” got everything wrong. It’s not just that their judgment was faulty. It’s that time and again, the professional elites deceived the citizenry, derided other academics…