By Samuel Strait – November 22, 2020 It is not often that I am completely blown away by something said by those that occupy positions of prominence in the science world. In an article found in Forbes published back in July of this year, "Senior Science Contributor" Ethan Siegel, titled his piece 'You must not 'do your own research' when it comes to science". After reading "Dr" Siegel's words, I felt I'd been transported back in time to Victorian England, a place where rigid class society ruled the day. A place where fictitious Freddy Simpleton's, 4th Earl of Stupid, down from Eton invited me to pop around to his club to lecture me on how things are supposed to be. Freddy would be seated in an elaborately upholstered chair waving a cigar around while he explained to me just how his lot in life must be the way things were and the insufferable rabble of the lower orders were not to question his view of the world. Returning in time to the year 2020, it seemed, at least to me, That "Dr" Siegel had become the Freddy Simpleton of today while clearly stating that only scientists of today should be allowed to talk about all things scientific and the rabble of the lower orders should shut up and lock step. Having just a small bit of knowledge regarding the fallacy of "Dr" Siegel's kind of elitist thinking, it was not hard to show just how far he has strayed from being a real scientist. In his own field of "expertise" there are literally hundreds of historical examples of the experts getting it wrong sometimes for thousands of years, then left to "the rabble" to get science back on track. In his article' "Dr" Siegel has tried to convince his readers that in several of the most recent instances of "consensus science", fluoridating water, vaccinations, climate change, and Covid-19, that we must ignore anything that conflicts with his notion of consensus in his scientific world. The problem with that kind of thinking in the world of science is that we would find ourselves back in time where the Freddy's of the world held sway and scientific thinking became like Freddy's view of Victorian Society, that those of the lower classes couldn't contribute in any way. It is truly a sad day in the year 2020, if this is what modern scientists think of us, the non scientists. Of the four samples of "consensus" science that Siegel has used, there are many who have valid questions about the notion that there is nothing further to be learned about these four. Just as "Dr" Siegel has claimed it is dangerous to not conform to science, it is dangerous to expect conformity in science. It is this kind of shallow thinking that has begun to plague many in the scientific world of today. If not for a churchman, not a scientist, in 1543 might we still be thinking that the sun revolved around the earth and not the other way around? Individuals who claim to be scientists who do not wish to be troubled by people who do their own research could very well be a danger to the discipline they currently inhabit. The whole idea not to be locked in a science that has no desire for those outside of science to be researchers and critical thinkers, is akin to Freddy's notion of Victorian society. Shame on you Dr Siegel. The science surrounding fluoridating water, vaccinations, climate change, and Covid-19 is far from over.