A SECRET? If you study the ‘science’ of human lying, and have a basic understand

A SECRET?
If you study the ‘science’ of human lying, and have a basic understanding of statistics, it’s relatively easy to separate good research from bad – not because you understand the research (although that helps a lot) but because you can identify the untestifiable: lying.
The COVID fiasco produces volumes of noise but almost NO signal (useful research). No small part of the blame goes to the media for lying about the research for clicks and eyeballs. And a lot of the blame goes to the people who have no business interpreting research an spinning it for their purposes.
So, because we don’t know how to identify lying, very few people can judge the veracity of research they falsely call ‘science’.
And again, I’d like to repeat, it’s not ‘Science’ until it’s survived market falsification. Until then it’s just Research. And sometimes, it’s not even that.
You don’t trust the research. You trust settled science. And that takes time.