'Follow the science' turned out to be a political slogan designed to justify a host of government actions that were, in fact, not based on science. Smart people learned never to trust powerful people like Fauci who used this phrase to get public support, mostly for COVID vaccines.
Long before that phrase was used the medical establishment believed they had a moral and professional responsibility to use evidence-based medicine to serve their patients.
People like Fauci ignored the best evidence and this explains why everything he tried to push on Americans did not make medical sense. Some bought into the propaganda, but many did not.
Hard to believe in this pandemic, but historically modern medicine had been based for a long time on evidence. Evidence-based medicine always made sense; medical practice should, of course, be based on solid scientific data and documented clinical experience. But something has changed. The whole medical system has been corrupted. Too many people have been fooled by phony medical experts. Fauci is the poster child for corrupt physicians pushing personal preferences that are not supported by medical data.
When you kill evidence-based medicine you kill people, as shown by over one million COVID deaths in the US.
A recent medical journal article was titled "The illusion of evidence based medicine." Here are a few of its key points:
"Evidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation, and commercialisation of academia."
"Industry sponsored clinical trials are misrepresented. Until this problem is corrected, evidence based medicine will remain an illusion."
"A science of real integrity would be one in which practitioners are careful not to cling to cherished hypotheses and take seriously the outcome of the most stringent experiments."
"Scientific progress is thwarted by the ownership of data and knowledge because industry suppresses negative trial results, fails to report adverse events, and does not share raw data with the academic research community. Patients die because of the adverse impact of commercial interests on the research agenda, universities, and regulators."
Another article aimed at physicians was "Another Casualty of COVID-19: Evidence-Based Medicine." Here are a few of its key points.
"COVID-19 has not only exacted a heavy human and economic toll, but the pandemic effectively 'killed evidence-based medicine in this country,' a New York oncologist argued."
"An analysis of 11 highly cited journals showed that the median time for peer review decreased from 90 days in 2019 to 19 days for COVID-related articles in 2020." [In other words, science rushed is science ruined.]
"A fundamental mistrust of medical science has arisen from a polarized society. In general, medical school has 'very poor training in evidence-based medicine,'" said a conference speaker.
Also recently, Dr. Robert W. Malone wrote an essay on his substack site "The illusion of evidence-based medicine - How the government stopped worrying and learned to love propaganda." Here are some of his key points.
"Evidence-based medicine is 'the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.' The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of the patient, and the best available scientific information to guide decision-making about clinical management."
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