I must admit that when I saw the subtitle "It was never a fair fight" I assumed your conclusion was that the 'cathedral' had won -- since it... obviously has.

And yet in the narrowest sense, 'team reality' has won. This is clear to anyone competent and interested enough to perform their own examination, but as (Kaschuta?) put it, it's "a voting bloc the size of a city block."

Is it really winning if there was no agreed upon ruleset and win condition? "But there is a universal ruleset!", you might say. "Truth is universal!" Is it the only universal?

Why didn't the Climategate emails matter? Is it even possible to imagine a "COVIDgate" today? What would the damning leaked emails contain? "We lied on purpose so people would go along." Oh wait Fauci already said that.

Yes. There is another universal. It's the one that can lie and get away with it.