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> It can take decades for quite a substantial update on what we thought we knew to trickle down from academia to practicing medical professionals.

A recent ep of the Trickle Down podcast (premium offshoot of a show that studies conspiratorial thinking, Q Anon Anonymous), discussed how we learned to treat ulcers with antibiotics and then lost that information for something like fifty years. Changing the scientific understanding of their cause had a Greek doctor going to his country’s health ministry over and over and getting rejected despite results. I think you nailed it.