Science should be a profession, not a priesthood. March 16, 2022 • Commentary By Jeffrey A. Singer for Cato Inst This article appeared in the May 2022 issue of Reason. In March 2020, the iconoclastic French microbiologist Didier Raoult announced that the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine had cured all 36 COVID-19 patients enrolled in his clinical trial. Many of Raoult’s colleagues rejected his conclusions, arguing that the trial was too small and noting that it was not randomized and controlled. But as the deadly coronavirus spread rapidly throughout the world and governments responded with draconian lockdowns, public attention was quickly drawn to the … Continue reading Against Scientific Gatekeeping