Misplaced trust

Re: “Big toe worries”, (PostBag, June 15) and “Devil to pay”, (PostBag, June 13).

The snarky attack by David Brown on Michael Setter exposes the problem with Covid and the general ignorance of people as to how the philosophy and system of science is supposed to work and how it has been distorted through politics and profits. Science is an ongoing, and most probably, eternal debate about the “nature of reality”. The early period of science was driven by natural curiosity. It is now driven by capitalism and profiteering off of scientific knowledge.

This financial influence makes Mr Setter’s questioning of the Covid vaccines not only valid but mandatory if one is to use reasoning and the history of medical blunders. The “blunder” is covered since vaccine manufacturers are not being held liable for adverse reactions to their product. Where is the avoidance of liability allowed in any other market or financial venture? The vaccines were fraudulently approved without undergoing normal scientific protocols of at least a decade of research before a new drug is approved, longer with usage on children and infants.

Mr Brown’s pollyannish attitude of trusting pharmaceutical companies that are purposefully designed to make profit, not altruistically heal the sick, is a perfect example of how scientific ignorance is allowing the Covid spectacle to be accepted and continued.

Mr Brown should support a rigorous examination of the points that Mr Setter made if the “truth” is important. If just wanting to be right to assuage an ego, then deriding Mr Setter is the correct course.

DARIUS HOBER