> medical consensus I think I can understand where these sentiments come from. People are dissatisfied with medical consensus because medicine doesn’t really

> medical consensus I think I can understand where these sentiments come from. People are dissatisfied with medical consensus because medicine doesn’t really speak with a unified voice. A doctor in one hospital might treat a condition differently from another — sometimes radically differently — and your family doctor might say something different from either of them. And anyone who’s been paying attention has seen authoritative recommendations from one decade be retracted a decade or two later. The discipline is still waiting for a lot of discoveries that would dramatically change both mundane and more rare scenarios. A lot of competing theories show up in practice, which is natural for innovation. Unfortunately, there are a number of cargo cults that have been medical consensus for many years.