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Every profession has a certain percentage of unqualified morons working in it.

In most cases, it just means work doesn't get done and/or you have an unsatisfied customer. But in the case of medicine, it kills people.

Then you have the corrupt that will do anything to try to get rich and famous. This is where you'll have a doctor claiming they found a new treatment for a disease or some other discovery by manipulating data and not seeking peer review. Examples of this include the Andrew Wakefield who started the "vaccines cause autism" movement, and whatever doctor started claiming Ivermectin treats COVID.



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