You speak of "teams" in a way that implies there are two sides equally unbased, equally mindlessly driven just by team mentality. In this misguided rhetoric, y

You speak of "teams" in a way that implies there are two sides equally unbased, equally mindlessly driven just by team mentality. In this misguided rhetoric, you equate all the scientists driven by data at one side, with the snake oil salesmen driven by whatever on the other; as if both sides were equally wrong for defending their position. The thing is, when we didn't know if those drugs worked or not, all scientists were jumping at the chance of studding them, after all, there is a lot of clout to be have by finding a cure, there were no teams. But after the results came out and certain drugs have shown to not have a significant effect, then the serious scientists moved own (or wanted to move on), but formation of the "team snake oil" to go against the data means that scientists have to keep repeating themselves debunking things that we already know don't work.