@Oddthinking Just tell ya something, from next time try to respect John Rennie sir. Don’t you show your power to him, eh! I hope it won’t happen next time.

@user6232128 Why to call everyone “sir”, pal?

@KnightadmiresChappo I have no idea what this means, and have no desire to be drawn in.

@LаngLаngС If a comment is basically a pseudo answer, please flag it.

From the required reading list: Paul Offit: "Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far". The most impressive book I've read this year. Not all 100% golden, but very solidly reasoned overall. While I still would argue 'unconvincing' for a few points, I also had to revise a few of my own concepts, if not relabelling them 'beliefs' and 'errors'. – Now, can we force our users to read it? ;)

Offit is a very big name in some circles. I've never delved into any of his work, but I know he commands a lot of respect.

The title of that book certainly fits my MO, which might cynically be labeled "contrarian". Lol. It looks interesting.

Yo. I actually read the title itself as something of a pun. Actually the content is the opposite of what I thought coming from the title. He delivers a planctus of way too much modern medicine not going far enough. Into the direction of evidence based medicine that is. Most of the book being about patients and even doctors clinging to medical myths that once were thought plausible or correct or sticking to theories and practice that were 'proven wrong'.

And speaking of that lamentable status of evidence for either general lockdowns or universal community mask NPIs: acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817 nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717 I am still waiting that those often so deafeningly claiming "follow the science" on both while mandating them show their cards.

@LаngLаngС "patients and even doctors clinging to medical myths that once were thought plausible or correct or sticking to theories and practice that were 'proven wrong'." That's the way I take it as well. Beliefs vs. evidence, yet when the beliefs are called "Evidence-Based Medicine".

@LаngLаngС I swear, if we can just render "follow the science" to the urban dictionary and forget it already, that'd be great.