It is oft said that fortune favors the brave. But what society witnessed during the last two years of raging human rights abuse, was a feckless ‘skeptic’ community, formerly raging with swagger of doubt – now silent and groveling, prostrate before their bare-naked Emperors.
Our contemporary form of skepticism since the time of Descartes has been defined as
Philosophical views which advance some degree of doubt regarding claims that are elsewhere taken for granted.
But what happens when those who have assumed the task of ‘methodical doubt’ on everyone’s behalf, fail to undertake even basic forms of the very skepticism with which they formerly intimidated all around them? Such a charade now reveals itself to all concerned, as constituting nothing more than a huckster’s act. ‘Why assume the risk of doubting? Let’s let the people we disdain take the flak.’ Having cowered in their basements for two years, my regard for pop skeptics hit rock bottom during the Covid-19 pandemic – and I did not think it could possibly sink any further. Cowards.
Cowardice, has displaced doubt in skepticism.
Fear doesn’t change people. In fact, it exposes them.
~ Ann Bauer, Author @annbauerwriter

The Ethical Skeptic, “Where Were the Skeptics?”; The Ethical Skeptic, WordPress, 8 Jan 2022; Web, https://theethicalskeptic.com/?p=60162
Can you list some names or elaborate further? The people I follow seem to be doing the work against the naked Emperors such as lawsuits, organizations to dispense early treatment, work to swing elections like VA’s or reopen schools.
I am speaking about the worn out list of self-proclaimed science representatives. A start can be found at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_skeptics
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_skeptical_organizations
I find myself in a bizarre pandemonium where I see reason intertwined with absolute idiocy – which is begetting a bizarre form of newspeak „rationality“ …
And now it is more total than ever before ! And you don‘t even have to explain anything, because … it is so! Obviously!
… right? RIGHT?!?