A brilliant deep dive into the ossified and dogmatic structures behind the widening gap between public health and scientific evidence. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/18/t...
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Groupthink, deference to authority, a fundamental lack of scientific understanding, and sheer lack of curiosity by practitioners have hollowed out public health structures at all levels. This became blindingly obvious as a result of the COVID pandemic.
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Dozens of millions of excess deaths later, the lessons have not been learnt. A Canadian task force so misread the evidence on rising cancer rates in women that it recommended *eliminating* screening for the 40-49 age group.
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This was so outrageous that even politicians, always ready to jump on cost saving recommendations, could see something was amiss, and paused the work of the task force instead. Of course, the last thing we want is public health decisions subject to political whim…
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…but what’s coming out of practitioners, increasingly divorced from scientific best-practice, is observationally equivalent to that.
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Thousands of other similarly ill-thought out decisions, concerning everything from vaccinations to infection control, fly under the radar. We are well past peak health, and on our way to becoming a sicker society.
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