Everything was presented as irrefutable fact.
Anyone who questioned these “facts” ran the real risk of being attacked, fired, and de-platformed.
This was the real “anti-science,” and it continues to this day, from the United States government.
DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers' vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904's recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination at least through May 2023. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward.
Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says science teaches such and such, he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach it; experience teaches it. If they say to you science has shown such and such, you might ask, “How does science show it–how did the scientists find out–how, what, where?” Not science has shown, but this experiment, this effect, has shown. And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments (but we must listen to all the evidence), to judge whether a reusable conclusion has been arrived at.
Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show, 3/29/21
The Real Anti-Science