Hocus Pocus https://post.news/article/2KtOijkUqXbFpssBBHpSK0eBf0u
The Harvard Law School Gazette published the fascinating article shared in the link above.
It shows brilliantly how both magicians and the doctors of disinformation utilize similar “tricks” to fool you.
But the one thing that blows my mind the most, how did a gaggle of unqualified and previously unknown, obscure, fringe physicians with obviously embellished resumes become considered experts?
From the first step in medical education, there is careful scrutiny of one's background. Resumes and CVs can checked and verified filtering out the cheaters and bottom dwellers. The intense competition for elite post graduate training is another filter assuring that the cream rises to the top. Those physicians populate the faculty and staff at premier medical schools. Those are medicine’s all stars. You know their names and read their articles in the NEJM. You attend the CME programs and listen to the best of the best.
Then along came COVID and suddenly doctors no one ever heard of began showing up on TV (mainly FOX) and held out as experts. I watched these programs in amazement. Who IS that guy or gal? I have never heard of them before.
Listening to their commentary, I smelled a rat. What they said and how they said it sounded eerily familiar to the type of arguments the con artists who pushed laetrile and chelation therapy when I was a medical student and resident physician 40+ years ago.
So I began fact checking the CVs of these alleged experts. I was stunned at what I found. None are legitimate recognized experts in infectious diseases.
Even worse, I found multiple blatantly false claims on some their CVs. I scoured University records and catalogs to validate their claims. In many instances, the claims of training and expertise were not just embellished but outright lies.
For example,.one of the doctors of disinformation claims to have been the founder and director of a program at a major medical school. Just one problem, that medical school did not have such a program at the time. I called that medical school. No one there recalls this doctor.
Yet this is doctor who is telling the world he is an expert. There are many more examples of this kind of fraud or “magic trick”.
World authorities in medicine don’t pop out of nowhere like a rabbit out of a hat. But that is exactly what has happened here.
It’s magic.