[Pandemics, Politics and Science: the Role of Science and Scientifics for the Solution of the COVID 19 Pandemic Conflicts]
The public health crisis caused by COVID 19 disease has bring again to the public arena the old debate of the role in decision making process of politics and science. In this paper we analyze, in the context of the current pandemics, how politics has left a stellar role for science, either because science has anticipated in its proposals to politics, or because politics has opted for it as a premeditated strategy. The references to the opinion of scientists as a decision making criterion or, furthermore, their presence as true spokesmen for authority have been so frequent. This means rediscovering science and health as instruments of power, in terms that remind us of what Foucault denounced almost fifty years ago with his Biopolitics.
Cuadernos de bioetica revista oficial de la Asociacion Espanola de Bioetica y Etica Medica