Virtually always may me a little stronger than I'd say, but basically we agree. I can think of a few medical examples of useful treatments being badmouthed or even banned due to the efforts of pharmacomedical business. I don't know as much about other fields.
Example: The amino acid tryptophan was banned in the US due to one bad batch, a very short time before the first SSRI was introduced.
Of course some so-called medical treatments DESERVE to be badmouthed but that's entirely another matter.
:) With dorks like you and I, it's important to look at the specific phraseology. "Virtually always" != always, and "supremely sceptical" != "don't believe". After a heckofalot of conversations with "lay-people" I frequently fall into the same problem, of reading what is generally there, rather than what is specifically there.
The only thing that comes close is "X, therefore you need to cede control over your standard of living to this commitee".
It's virtually always the case that X is wrong.
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Example: The amino acid tryptophan was banned in the US due to one bad batch, a very short time before the first SSRI was introduced.
Of course some so-called medical treatments DESERVE to be badmouthed but that's entirely another matter.
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