COVID-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science (13 November 2020)

Summary

"When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die."

Kamran Abbasi believes politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible, as Abbasi explores in this BMJ Editorial.