"...a somewhat annoying habit has developed where scientists will weigh-in on questions related to Covid NPIs or climate policy that involve complicated multi-dimensional tradeoffs as if 'the science' settles rather than informs these debates. This is bad."

Not the main idea of this piece but I'm highlighting it because I remember saying essentially the exact same thing a while ago.

"Trump's war on science" by Matthew Yglesias in Slow Boring https://www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-war-on-science