Nothing in medicine has had a 'scientific basis' since the Bradford Hill criteria were pushed as part of a PR campaign to sell benzos. Of course, the facade was

Nothing in medicine has had a 'scientific basis' since the Bradford Hill criteria were pushed as part of a PR campaign to sell benzos. Of course, the facade was the ban of cigarettes. Nicotine is a natural anxiety suppressant used in traditional medicine for thousands of years... but of course you can't have that when we have highly overpriced synthetic chemical which has a lot of side effects (and hence is much better for business) needed a PR campaign.