Saw this and it looks like a blog hosted on a newspaper platform. Pretty decent. Translated URL: https://translate.google.com/transl...e/autoren/wreiter/eine-schreckliche-krankheit Original URL: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/wreiter/eine-schreckliche-krankheit
another german article Jan 2020 https://www.focus.de/gesundheit/rat...rin-muenster-unheilbar-krank_id_10665083.html translation https://translate.google.com/transl...-unheilbar-krank_id_10665083.html&prev=search
It's pretty embarrassing how often newspaper articles portray a more accurate representation of the disease than much of the actual medical literature used in clinical practice. The average person can be made to learn in a few minutes a more representative understanding than the self-proclaimed "leading experts" and what they publish in peer-reviewed journals after years, sometimes decades, of research. That's very bad in terms of standing up for expertise. This will have serious consequences in the future, possibly as bad as the anti-vaccination movement sparked by Horton and The Lancet. Alternative medicine practitioners, spiritualists and other pseudoscientists will point at this as evidence that modern medicine isn't the be all end all and frankly it will be hard to blame those who will believe that message. Because if you look at a comparable situation in climate change denial, the oil companies themselves at least understand climate change, they just fund denial to maximize their short-term profits. But here the "experts" actually are clueless. That's a terrible situation about trust in modern science and especially in evidence-based medicine, when the so-called experts blatantly make stuff up no matter how much harm and suffering it inflicts.
