If I'm to extrapolate my personal experience I'd say that most only care to look like that. All my respect to the real ones.

In this case they unfortunately did act as a completely homogenous group.

Epidemiology at least had the Great Barrington Declaration, it had Anders Tegnell. There were a tiny minority who spoke up. Where was the equivalent group for virology? The fact that these guys were lying and lying as a group had to be figured out by deep investigation and lawsuits by outsiders.

> Please remember that most people who belong to one of those groups truly want to get to truth and improve our knowledge and lives.

I no longer believe this.

It's much more reasonable to think most government officials and scientists don't care one way or the other. Some outliers in both groups are malicious, some outliers are benign.