Overall I agree. But the underlying pressure not to publish negative results, the commercialisation of publication, the publish or perish retrace has got worse.

The politicisation of science has also got markedly worse. Az got lambasted by sectoral interests, promoting pfizer and modena. Not that mRNA isn't amazing, but the sheer amount of crap decision making around Az is telling.

The fuckup around aerosol dispersion is one room of science and disease theory disrespecting the specialists in another room. The work on aerosols was compelling good science months before the WHO backtracked and accepted it (this is a QuT specialist research area so its a story I know from Australia where I live. Prof Lidia Morowska's and others work getting the reconsideration of aerosol risk took a lot of pushing.)

AGW antoscientism was weaponised by big oil. Anti nuke fever has added metric tonnes of cost to any rational discussions of nuclear power and green energy.

Meanwhile, antibiotic use is rampant. We know the science here. We know what's coming.