This is why I take it as well. Its incredible how well it works. I hate to engage in conspiratorial thinking, but some of these overly critical analysis really seem to be coming from a big pharma "tell them the shit doesn't work" perspective. In a country with for-profit medicine, non-patented or low-profit treatments often get demonized. Especially by "useful idiots" who follow this ultra skeptical mindset where only what they hear from an authority like the government or academia, has any real value. They refuse to believe these institutions can have institutional fraud, incompetence, groupthink, or unfair motivators to getting published. As someone who works in a healthcare related field, its pretty obvious that industry controls the narrative, at least to me.

Or can be gamed by private industry and other benefactors who have a bias or agenda.