Scientific gatekeeping?

https://www.cato.org/commentary/against-scientific-gatekeeping

I really hate the persistent conflation of unfounded baseless claims against consensus with data and evidence that eventually supplant prior consensus. The very examples he cited here are things that were replicated over time with robust studies and trials. Claiming we should listen to people touting stuff that has no evidence is the opposite of that process.

Criticizing such people isn't preventing new advancements in consensus- as his own piece mentioned lol. We did trials of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Of masking. Of all this supposed stuff that was off limits from the "priesthood".