Systemic expert marginalization yields pandemics, budget-driven recessions, and health system collapse.

Evidence

Malignant normality affects experts within government: their work is interfered with, their data are destroyed, and they are prevented from gathering new data. Their reports are ignored or rejected as hoaxes. Those who stand up for the integrity of their profession are hounded, sidelined, pushed out. The results can be disastrous—pandemics, for example, or government budgets untethered to calculations so that they result in recessions, or policies so ineptly designed and insufficient to meet problems that the result is the further collapse of systems of health care. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 385

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Unreckoned medical violence left marginalized communities vulnerable to pandemic misinformation — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 254

Broader Connections

• Unreckoned medical violence left marginalized communities vulnerable to pandemic misinformation #complicates (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 254