The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty: Stuart Firestein on Science in the Age of Tony Fauci

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“Uncertainty is what tells you that science is reliable. It’s the people who are absolutely certain that you have to watch out for.” — Stuart Firestein The physician-scientist Tony Fauci is having a rough week. His newly revealed diary has even disappointed traditional allies at The Atlantic and The New Yorker who see the hitherto liberal saint of the pandemic as both too intimate with power and too certain of his scientific assumptions. Fauci’s fellow American scientist, Stuart Firestein , is having a better week. The Columbia neurobiologist has a new book out today, It Could Be Otherwise , which is a manifesto against scientific certainty. It’s the certain ones you have to watch out for,…