This essay goes hard...

"Science fiction is hyperstition, the fiction that makes itself true. In the current year, SCIENCE is the name of a church that inverts the motto of the British Royal Society; where scientists once proclaimed “take no one’s word,” Scientists (big S) now command us to “trust the science.” The former motto gave us antibiotics and rockets, the latter has brought mask mandates and genital affirmation surgeries, a procedure in which one denies one’s sex."

https://asylummagazine.ca/LANDLINE-STORIES-IN-A-SMARTPHONE-WORLD