[DiogenesKynikos]

Universities have produced medical breakthrough after medical breakthrough.

Peer review isn't perfect, but it has gotten us incredibly far, and it's way better than political appointees who don't believe that AIDS is caused by HIV making decisions based on culture war considerations.

[noosphr]

Clinical trails have produced medical breakthroughs, peer review gave us leeches.

[DiogenesKynikos]

How do you think medical treatments make it to the stage of doing clinical trials?

The basic research that leads to these treatments is all selected and evaluated using peer review. Even the results of the clinical trials are analyzed using peer review.

You're happy to send us back to the Middle Ages, when people actually did think leeches were the solution to everything, because you've got some weird chip on your shoulder.

[clipsy]

Clinical trials don’t happen until there’s a treatment to try.

[noosphr]

Like leeches.

[monkpit]

False dichotomy