Dr. Leana Wen: ‘Quite Distressing’ that RFK Jr. Is Encouraging People To Be Skeptical

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WEN: “Well, I'm confused by that message, and I bet that many people are confused about this too. Look, I'm a clinician. I talk to my colleagues who are physicians and nurses all the time. And, yes, we do our own research. And, yes, we look at scientific articles, and we parse through them. We look at recommendations. But the thing is, there are lots of different clinical topics. It's not reasonable to expect that even clinicians and scientists look at the medical literature all the time and parse through the literature ourselves on every single topic. This is the reason why we look to guidelines. There are medical organizations that synthesize these data. By the way, we look up to the CDC, or at least throughout history we have looked up to the CDC, to the FDA, to compile these studies for us and to make recommendations. And this -- we have always throughout history depended on our federal agencies as the gold standard for expertise, for information, for unbiased scientific data. And so it's very confusing and quite distressing actually to hear the person who heads up these agencies, to whom these agencies report, now say that expertise cannot be trusted.”