Commentary
A clip of Christian Drosten, at the World Health Summit in Berlin, calling for media to suppress “disinformation” went somewhat viral on X, formerly Twitter, recently. “We shouldn’t have [just] anybody who has some academic degree talking about the heart of the issue in the middle of a pandemic,” Mr. Drosten said. In contrast to such untrustworthy “anybodies,” Mr. Drosten invoked “experts who are really experts,” “who are ... qualified to summarise the state of knowledge:” scientists who are “top scientists.”
