It's true that there are scientists with an agenda.
Every fugging person you meet walking the face of the earth has a goddamn agenda.
We have to pick and choose who to place our trust in, and to what degree.
The less knowledge we ourselves possess, the more we are willing to trust.
The less we are able to learn, the more we are willing to trust.
The more educated we become, the less we are willing to trust.
The easier we have access to knowledge of a subject, the less we are willing to trust.
What we inevitably miss is that it's impossible for us to know as much as professionals in a field if we ourselves are not professionals in that same field.
I can read books and scientific studies all the livelong day but I am not and will not likely ever be a virologist or an epidemiologist, nor will I ever design vaccines or study how they work or do not work, nor will I ever have sufficient knowledge to speak in an educated manner about the immune response in the human body and how the body responds to COVID.
I can read about it, but that's it ... I can't see it for myself or learn from actual hands on experience.
WE ARE FORCED TO RELY UPON THE SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE OF OTHERS IN THIS WORLD. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. The minute we start thinking we have all the answers in the face of a disparity of knowledge so profound ... well, let's just say the world is populated with idiots.
We don't need constant reminders to question what we are told...but we need to recognize our own limitations and stop trying to swim upstream when we have absolutely no real way of supplanting the knowledge of others.