When Confidence Gets a Cabinet Pass

Nothing says “adult government” like handing the health file to a guy whose qualifications were assembled from a podcast, a thread, and the kind of certainty that comes from never being corrected in public. The anti-expert crowd loves to call that independence; the rest of us call it a wellness scam with a flag on it. You can almost hear the corkboard sneeze.

And here’s the part that always gets me: the loudest people shouting that facts are for losers still want modern medicine to work the second the fever hits the fan. They don’t actually hate expertise. They just hate being asked to respect it before the disaster arrives. That’s not research. That’s auditioning to run public health like a group chat where the biggest microphone wins.