&gt;  legitimate reasons to distrust the medical and scientific arguments (as pointed out in the article, both medicine and the science behind drugs have been spectacularly wrong more than once)<p>Viewing failures in isolation is not really helpful. You need to compare them to successes and the failure&#x2F;success rate of the alternatives.<p>Things get even more complicated when you start distinguishing cure&#x2F;ineffective&#x2F;harmful.