IMO, doctors are responsible and, in the end, will be held liable.
Their job is to research and make sure what they're giving people is safe. They are being willfully ignorant and not doing their most basic due diligence. Imagine if an IT director decided to implement a security product that, after a basic web search, has proven it's actually a trojan horse and installed it on every computer in the company. You'd definitely question motive and, at the least bit, would be fired.
A computer and a company is far less valuable than a single human life. Yet they're not doing even the most basic research.
I often have this argument with friends about doctors. They always say, "but a DR wouldn't just do something unethical for money, or because a higher up tells them too"
They don't understand this part. The DR believes in what they were taught. All his test successes, all his professional success, were all built upon that foundation. If the foundation is faulty, what does that make the Dr?
So yes they do what they're told because the majority of them actually believe it.
This. I've said many times lately that the big lesson from the scamdemic is how mediocre and paper thin the majority of our "experts" and "professionals" are. Our unthinking trust and deference to their expertise has been misplaced.
IMO, doctors are responsible and, in the end, will be held liable.
Their job is to research and make sure what they're giving people is safe. They are being willfully ignorant and not doing their most basic due diligence. Imagine if an IT director decided to implement a security product that, after a basic web search, has proven it's actually a trojan horse and installed it on every computer in the company. You'd definitely question motive and, at the least bit, would be fired.
A computer and a company is far less valuable than a single human life. Yet they're not doing even the most basic research.
Teachers and Drs are both the same.
They learn what they're taught.
That's it.
I often have this argument with friends about doctors. They always say, "but a DR wouldn't just do something unethical for money, or because a higher up tells them too"
They don't understand this part. The DR believes in what they were taught. All his test successes, all his professional success, were all built upon that foundation. If the foundation is faulty, what does that make the Dr?
So yes they do what they're told because the majority of them actually believe it.
This. I've said many times lately that the big lesson from the scamdemic is how mediocre and paper thin the majority of our "experts" and "professionals" are. Our unthinking trust and deference to their expertise has been misplaced.
Sheep no more
"Those you trust the most." -Q