Scientists have to decide how to advise politicians. I think we need to be a bit more sympathetic, he says. And I haven't noticed a great welling of mistrust in scientists as a result of it. For me, the triumph of the speed of the vaccination is what I take away from it. It feels like the damage to scientific authority would have been much less if they had been more modest in their claims and allowed people to make decisions for themselves.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with Richard Dawkins to discuss God, vaccines and his poetic spirit.
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