The article reflects on past activism in health discussions and contrasts it with current health leadership under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump. The author emphasizes the importance of scientific methods to avoid biases like confirmation bias, highlighting that while activists once created dialogue and progress in the 80s and 90s, similar outcomes may not be possible today. Current federal health leadership is seen as resistant to constructive criticism and engaged in biased reasoning, undermining the potential for the needed progress in public health.
"Science, at its core, is not a set of facts, it's a method of analyzing reality and trying to understand what is true."
"Confirmation bias...is a ubiquitous phenomenon...the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations, or a hypothesis in hand."
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