Things are finally coming out, and it demonstrates why "Trust the Experts/Science!" is bullshit

At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China in the months and years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“Tabak was engaging in the usual obfuscation and semantic manipulation that is so frustrating and pointless,” Nickels said, adding that the NIH bigwig was resisting accountability for risky research that can create pathogens of pandemic potential.

"What? Take responsibility? That's not what we do!" seems to cover it nicely.

Now this:
The nation’s top public health official during the Covid-19 pandemic admitted that the origins of the coronavirus remain up for debate, the lab-leak theory is not a conspiracy, and that there was no scientific evidence to support the government’s social-distancing guidance.
Collins and Fauci trashed anyone who dared contradict their Preferred Narrative, damaged and destroyed careers, and got God only knows how many people killed, it appears in large part to protect themselves from having to answer what they'd been doing for years.

Appears what they should've all been saying was "Trust OUR Experts, and OUR version of  Science!"