Government representatives are most often not scientists, they rely on the guidance of expert of various fields to guide their decisions, because the problems of the world are complicated.
President John F. Kennedy expressed in his address to the National Science Academy on April 25, 1961, that the government “must turn to objective, disinterested scientists” to help guide decisions that need to be made.
Scientists have an ethical and moral responsibility of providing an unbiased representation of the state of knowledge upon which they base their positions.
Through time, industry has been captured and muddied and eroded trust, such as the “illusion of evidence based medicine”. [1]
Organic collaborations of independent scientists and experts have formed during the COVID-19 pandemic “in order to best help politicians evaluate the available evidence.” [2] Though their voices have been censored.