"A small group of elite scientists settled upon the use of masks and lockdowns to fight the coronavirus. They closed ranks around their strategies and expelled dissenters. All of this was classic groupthink, the MAHA crowd has argued: a psychological phenomenon that occurs when people's tendency to go along with the crowd prevents them from considering other courses of action. As a result, in their view, the public-health response to the coronavirus turned into catastrophe."
"In June, when Kennedy sacked all 17 members of the nation's top vaccine-advisory panel, a Health Department spokesperson said that it was a remedy for "vaccine groupthink." Upcoming changes to the U.S. dietary guidelines have been cast as a way of fighting groupthink too. Both Bhattacharya and the MAHA leader Calley Means have decried the groupthink infestation in our scientific institutions. And two months before his nomination to be FDA commissioner, Marty Makary published an entire book about the perils of medical groupthink."
Senior administration health figures identify institutional groupthink as a primary public-health threat and blame pandemic consensus for harmful policies. They contend elite scientists coalesced around masks and lockdowns, silencing dissent and preventing alternative strategies. The Make America Healthy Again movement frames the pandemic response as catastrophic, citing educational setbacks, a spike in drug-overdose deaths, and supply-chain-induced hunger in poor countries. Actions taken in response include firing the 17-member vaccine-advisory panel and proposing changes to U.S. dietary guidelines, both presented as remedies for groupthink. Several prominent figures and publications have criticized medical groupthink and advocated institutional reform.
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