The general trouble today more than ever is that main stream medicine is exceedingly cartelized, commercialized and profit driven that it is difficult to disentangle the legitimate good therapies from the one that in some cases are downright harmful.
- Papers are hard to read and understand for even for people in the profession.
- For a resonantly skilled person outside of the profession (say an engineer or physicist) it might take about 3 days to a week to read and understand a paper fully.
- A large part of the population - my guess easily over 50% will never be able to read and understand a paper.
- Papers can be fraudulent, data can be fudged, or entirely made up. The researchers could be biased etc. I'm not saying that every paper out there needs to be ignored, rather that the signal to noise ration is rather small.
- Controversial findings are often not published.