> "This year, we’ve come to better appreciate the fallibility and shortcomings of numerous well-established institutions (“masks don’t work”)… while simultaneously entrenching more heavily mechanisms that assume their correctness (“removing COVID misinformation”)."

I suspect in a cultural moment of mass-skepticism of even valid systems (e.g. masks/election/vaccines/wikipedia) it's very hard to touch on the fallibility of those systems without putting people on the defensive. It shouldn't be in an ideal world -- making these things more auditable and rigorous only makes them less prone to questioning in the long term, but I suppose many feel faith in the system is more important at this moment than incremental improvement.

[However this really doesn't answer the n=59 conundrum, which I think requires a different lens]