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# You are free to distrust medicine, but the...
> You are free to distrust medicine, but the pathogen is equally free to exploit the biological opening your distrust created. Liberty suspends coercion; it does not suspend causality.
**Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]]
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“You are free to distrust medicine, but the pathogen is equally free to exploit the biological opening your distrust created. Liberty suspends coercion; it does not suspend causality.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-free-distrust-medicine-coercion-suspend-causality
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