Well, here we are, 3 years to the day. Not even a shadow of an attempt of an effort, not even a whisper. I expected very little from this, given how the odds were stacked, and it still managed to massively underdeliver. Impressive, in a way. The whole process began almost 7 years ago, Cochrane has been aware all this time that their shoddy review is invalid and causing harm. Clearly they couldn't care less what happens to patients, how their product is used, how many suffer and die needlessly because of it.
Cochrane is gonna Cochrane. I can't believe for a second that there wasn't influence from the likes of Paul Garner, politics rule here. Cochrane has always been a private club for self-promotion. As the flag-bearer of the failed evidence-based medicine paradigm, the end of this rotten organization will mark a major shift towards progress in medicine. It didn't take hindsight to predict that an evidence paradigm built on opinion and biased agendas was ever going to work out, especially without a single bit of science to it. Some math, sure, on fake numbers. Not science. The only parts of medicine that work are founded on science. Nothing in evidence-based medicine meets scientific criteria, and it's terrible. A child can see through the flaws in this logic. But as with most things, until it happens to them, people don't understand the life experience of others. Even when it's their freaking job, it's not even close.
We still regularly see deaths in the community. Many in their early adulthood. Suicides, early deaths, despair. That we see, there's a lot more we never hear about. All enabled and promoted by Cochrane. Among others, sure, but you made this dystopian nightmare, helped impose it on us, coercively, making a mockery of informed consent. All predictable stuff, an entire discipline built on exemptions to the rule and zero accountability is basically choosing violence.
The disappointment is infinite, but I really did not expect much anyway. The fault still lies with Cochrane, their treachery and corruption is at the core of what they do. This is what everything about us, in secret, behind closed doors amounts to. No one ever thinks of the other half: first do no harm, or else what. Well it's not the other half, it's not even considered. It should, but it says everything that nothing ever happens, no matter how much monstrous harm is inflicted on millions. Medicine fails the waiter test too often, when they owe us nothing, they do nothing.
Well, that prompted a google search that contributes to my search history surely defying any categorisation. I still have no idea what extra bit of material Jonathan means. Regardless, I don't think it is a perfect analogy, because Cochrane does continue to be visible, and in fact highly influential, not least with respect to propping up the idea of exercise as a therapy for ME/CFS.
