Sometimes Crying Wolf May Be Beneficial

"OK, then, what's the takeaway here? At the very least, the obvious point is that sometimes, luckily and unpredictably, even when you lose, you really can win. But perhaps the bigger lesson is that while sometimes health experts sound alarms so loud that they seemingly stretch the boundaries of credulity, instead of covering our ears we might be better off fine tuning our hearing to extract the useful information from the high-pitched static."

Completely Wrong on Zika, But Alarm Likely Aided Global Health

Prevention Is A Pillar Of Medicine

"Doctors own prevention. They invented it, from vaccines to clean water to preventive screening tests. Mainstream medicine was responsible for the greatest preventive achievement in history: the smallpox vaccine campaign succeeded in preventing anyone from ever getting smallpox again. I defy you to comb through historical records and find any doctor who ever said 'Let’s stop vaccinating for smallpox so we can make more money treating its victims.'”

If You Think Doctors Don’t Do Prevention, Think Again

Evidence-based Prevention

A society that does not allocate sufficient funds toward evidence-based prevention is a society that does not really accept science.

http://blogs.plos.org/globalhealth/2015/05/three-important-things-diabetes/