The Times of London reports today that a vaccine may be ready by September. And Bill Gates says his foundation is going to spend billions to manufacture many different vaccines, knowing that most of them won't work, in order to speed the process of finding one that does.
Trump believes that the scientific community is vulnerable to a kind of herd immunity. Scientists immunize themselves against the career-limiting consequences of being wrong by following the herd. From this it follows that the concensus of the scientific community is always suspect, and never more reliable than the view of an informed (or uniformed) outsider who has had no enagement with the facts and reasoning of the scientific community.
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