It’s not logical. The medical community (and all highly educated people) rely on experts to synthesize the information and tell them what to think. Highly educated people are extremely sensitive to being told they are wrong about something, so they use experts and herd mentality to protect themselves. If everyone above them and around them is doing X, then X must be correct.
Look at how the doctors who actually reviewed the Covid data early 2020- 2021 and made decisions based on it, went against the mainstream, and were targeted and ostracized for it. Other doctors saw that and decided to not rock the boat, so to speak. It was easier and safer (and more profitable)for them to tow the line. There is only a certain type of personality (which most of us on this board are) who is skeptical of group think. Most of the time it’s because we have seen that they are wrong in other areas, so we no longer blindly trust them.
Also there are a LOT fewer solo practitioners/independent MDs than there used to be. The ones who are employed by groups or hospitals are under severe pressure to follow the party line.
It’s not logical. The medical community (and all highly educated people) rely on experts to synthesize the information and tell them what to think. Highly educated people are extremely sensitive to being told they are wrong about something, so they use experts and herd mentality to protect themselves. If everyone above them and around them is doing X, then X must be correct.
Look at how the doctors who actually reviewed the Covid data early 2020- 2021 and made decisions based on it, went against the mainstream, and were targeted and ostracized for it. Other doctors saw that and decided to not rock the boat, so to speak. It was easier and safer (and more profitable)for them to tow the line. There is only a certain type of personality (which most of us on this board are) who is skeptical of group think. Most of the time it’s because we have seen that they are wrong in other areas, so we no longer blindly trust them.
Also there are a LOT fewer solo practitioners/independent MDs than there used to be. The ones who are employed by groups or hospitals are under severe pressure to follow the party line.