I agree, but the same thing can be said about many of these health gurus. Their incentives are usually pretty opportunistic, too, especially when they sell some magic health supplement on their channel.

> We need trustworthy and incentive-aligned experts.

As a non-expert, it's hard to assess whether one or the other expert is incentive-aligned, so, metastudies are probably the best next thing we can do...

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I think what you're seeing though is a mainstream deterioration of trust in medical science.

Which in my opinion, is warranted.  But we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.  Problem is, "this being completely outside my field" is the position of 99% of the population, so what is a non-expert to do?

We need trustworthy and incentive-aligned experts.  Unfortunately, the US academic system has very messed up incentives.

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I think what you're seeing though is a mainstream deterioration of trust in medical science.

Which in my opinion, is warranted.  But we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.  Problem is, "this being completely outside my field" is the position of 99% of the population, so what is a non-expert to do?

We need trustworthy and incentive-aligned experts.  Unfortunately, the US academic system has very messed up incentives.