Under Massey’s leadership, the GMC has potentially hidden misconduct from patients, rejected objective biology, invested in corporations contributing to the health crises they’re meant to solve, referred doctors to tribunals for advocating common vitamins, refocused its remit to regulate doctors’ online speech and failed to refer doctor for breaking clear conflict of interest guidance.

this is why the idea of “a bunch of friends who are friends first and partisans later because they are people who have ideas and can disagree with one another and remain friends instead of performance artists who ARE their ideas but are pretending be people and attack any departure from doctrine” is unparseable for them.