The footage of the creator of the PCR test and Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis criticizing Fauci should give everyone pause. What he's saying is that when you increase the cycle threshold enough, you can find evidence of whatever you want.

I don’t think you can misuse PCR. [It is] the results; the interpretation of it. If they can find this virus in you at all – and with PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody.

It starts making you believe in the sort of Buddhist notion that everything is contained in everything else. If you can amplify one single molecule up to something you can really measure, which PCR can do, then there is just very few molecules that you don’t have at least one single one of in your body.

https://off-guardian.org/2020/10/05/pcr-inventor-it-doesnt-tell-you-that-you-are-sick/

I think you nail it when you say that the cries of 'Trust Science' really means 'Trust Authority'. People are so entrenched and invested in their side that they cannot think clearly.

What I see on Hive and other social media platforms is that people who do present scientific data and information and thus challenge the dominant narratives are quickly labelled 'conspiracy theorists' ,'anti-science', 'quacks' ,'infestation' , etc. They are painted with a whole litany of insulting names which are thrust upon them and are 'othered' as a homogenous group that hold only ignorant views.

They are marginalized and dismissed out of hand without debate. Thus, they are deemed to be unworthy of engaging with and, no matter the merits of their arguments or of the quality of the information they present, they are completely discounted.

On certain topics there is apparently, no debate.
What could be more 'anti-science' than blindly accepting establishment orthodoxy?

As for TikTok videos as a sign of optimism... I have serious doubts. Yet, we can probably all agree that things are going to get a whole lot weirder and that tectonic changes are already taking place.