Here’s a question to which I thought I would roughly know the answer, give or take a decade:
When was evidence based medicine fully introduced? That is, the medical profession relying on the results from clinical trials more than their own experience. Me, I’d have thought early 1950’s or similar. Round about the time new drugs were becoming available.
Nope. 1991.
Until then doctors would take guidance from more the most senior doctor in the room, or rely on their own (or anecdotal) opinion. Indeed, the introduction at the time received from pushback from doctors who thought they knew better. In fact, teaching about clinical trials in medical school only started in the 1980’s.
Anyway, I found all this interesting… and it might explain why there are so many doubters about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
Until there is a principle higher than that of making money I will take what Big Pharma has to say with a pinch of salt - all they’re interested in is making money. On the one hand they manufacture harmful things like pesticides that cause things like cancer, and on the other they sell you the pills to ‘treat you’ 