I am not a doctor, but I've been surrounded by medical professionals since my youth, beginning with my mom, who was not only an RN, but Head Nurse at two different hospitals. I've also been involved with science for a long time.

I'll be brief, making just five primary points. But we've been losing science and we've been losing medicine; that is flatly unacceptable.

#1: Science is not consensus. 

Ten, one hundred, or a million people, all draped in lab coats and saying the same thing, does NOT make it so. In fact, it matters not at all. It's nothing but theater, and it's anti-science.

All science is, really, is a process of testing ideas; it is not an organization, it is not based upon authority (it's inherently anti-authority), and it is very certainly not allied with power. All that matters in science are verifiable results.

#2: Medicine stands apart from, and above, politics. 

Medicine is the application of science to the furtherance of human health. Politics is the use of persuasion and power to rule masses of humans. These are fully separate disciplines. To place politics over medicine is to subjugate and degrade medicine: it's a path backwards into darkness.

I'll leave details on this point to working medical practitioners, who can provide them with far greater specificity than I can… provided they're not too frightened to do so.