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> […] but that's has nothing to do with science nor can you place blame or reduce your trust across all scientists and scientific institutions.

It has everything to do with science when you have actual scientists directing and encouraging the practice.

I get that they are in the employ of the government, and one could perhaps argue they are more politician than scientist at that point. But they were trolleyed out and identified themselves as such, and appeared in every other way as if true scientists.

As for the blame part, that’s a judgement for individuals to make. Personally, it shook me to the core, and I do blame those scientists at least as much as I blame the politicians. I now look very much more closely at recommendations from public health and other government institutions, and take far less on trust.