Scientific totalitarianism came to fruition in COVID-19 in the United States and other “democracies”. In these states, governments exercised extraordinary, totalitarian authority in the name of science. The appeals by these states to “science” were not incidental. Rather, they were the consummation of the union between state and science; a union that has been growing for decades. Below, I trace the outlines of this novel form of government.
The rise of scientific totalitarianism
The rise of scientific totalitarianism
The rise of scientific totalitarianism
Scientific totalitarianism came to fruition in COVID-19 in the United States and other “democracies”. In these states, governments exercised extraordinary, totalitarian authority in the name of science. The appeals by these states to “science” were not incidental. Rather, they were the consummation of the union between state and science; a union that has been growing for decades. Below, I trace the outlines of this novel form of government.