The Problem with COVID Contrarianism

"Establishment" opinion can certainly be wrong. But especially on issues of science and medicine, anti-establishment dissent can become a path to crankdom.

Every day, a new Battle of the Pandemic seems to break out. There’s the Spotify controversy over podcaster Joe Rogan, accused of promoting COVID misinformation; there’s the protest by truckers in Canada against vaccine mandates and COVID-related restrictions. Late last month, the often-controversial former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, a leading …