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Doctors told pregnant women that smoking was fine.
Doctors told parents to put babies to sleep on their stomachs.
Doctors told patients that thalidomide was a safe sedative.
Doctors told people dealing with chronic pain that OxyContin was non-addictive.
Doctors told everyone that margarine was safer than butter.
Doctors told patients that lobotomies were a legitimate treatment for depression.
Doctors told the public that DDT was safe to spray directly on children to control lice.
Doctors endorsed specific cigarette brands in medical journals.
Doctors told patients with stomach ulcers it was stress, for decades, while Barry Marshall was being laughed out of conferences for suggesting it was a bacterium.
Doctors told millions of people that dietary fat caused heart disease, based on a study that excluded the fifteen countries whose data didn't fit.
And now a doctor is going to tell you that seed oils are fine.
You decide how much weight to give that.
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