there is a reason that there is an entire "medical writer" subspecialty that deals in nothing but "dumbing down science and drug data so that MD's can understand it."

very few have even rudimentary grasps of stats, data reading/handling, study design, or even base science.

it's easy to see, if one looks back 100 years, what quacks doctors of the time were.

what gets forgotten is that at the time, they were viewed as "authorities" just as they are now.

the odd conceit is that they somehow "really are authorities now" and will not be laughed at as quacks by those 50 years in the future.