Dr. Marty Makary slams ‘partisan’ experts for altering medical community in pandemic.
Experts’ Partisanship Changed the Culture of Medicine During COVID-19, Says Health Policy Expert
In a recent interview with Fox News, Johns Hopkins University health policy expert and surgeon Dr. Marty Makary expressed his concerns about the influence of “highly partisan” experts on the culture of medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Makary highlighted the prevalence of groupthink and the silencing of dissenting voices within the medical community.
“There’s been a lot of groupthink — there has been an attempt to silence anyone against the consensus and medicine change the culture of medicine changed during COVID,” Makary told Fox News anchor Jon Scott on FOX Report.
Makary emphasized that experts with partisan biases tend to cherry-pick data that aligns with their preferred conclusions, even if the studies themselves are flawed. Conversely, they ignore studies with impeccable standards if the conclusions contradict their beliefs.
“We now have an era where experts who are highly partisan are citing data with conclusions that they like even if those studies are flawed, and they ignore studies that have conclusions that they don’t want to hear, even if those studies have impeccable standards,” he added.
Makary’s remarks were prompted by a recent CNN appearance by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci was asked to respond to an analysis released by The Cochrane Institute, which raised doubts about the effectiveness of face masks in curbing the spread of COVID-19.
The Cochrane study gained attention earlier this year, leading to headlines suggesting that face masks made “little to no difference” in preventing the spread of the virus. This contradicted the wave of mask guidelines and mandates implemented during the pandemic.
“And Dr. Fauci, rather than criticize it or tried to point out a flaw in that study, acknowledge that it was quote unquote, less strong than other data,” Makary said.
During his CNN interviews, Fauci emphasized that other reviews focused on the individual level, where the data were stronger. However, when considering the effect on the overall pandemic, the data were less conclusive.
“When you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” Fauci said. “But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there’s no doubt that there’s many studies that show that there is an advantage.”
Makary further criticized the medical community for blindly following recommendations from Dr. Fauci and other experts, without considering alternative perspectives or addressing other important public health issues such as obesity and the mental health crisis.
“We have ignored the data on the largest public health intervention in human history,” Makary said. “Instead, everybody is rewriting their own story.”
He expressed his wish for less blind political allegiance to a few public health experts and a more comprehensive approach to addressing the challenges posed by the pandemic.
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.
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