Gary Brecka

And Albert Einstein had said,

The sign of an intelligent human being is someone who evolves their position as the data comes in.

And so we have to show humility.

Well, I didn't see humility in the way that study was presented.

There was no statistical significant increase in breast cancer in the women that got hormone replacement therapy compared to those who did not, the control group, in that original 2002 study.

But they sold it to the media as an increase in breast cancer.

But why do you think they would do that?

I mean, if the study conclusion was something different, why not report the data?

So was there a corrupt intent that was driving some kind of bottom line profit somewhere?

There had to be an intentionality behind manipulating that data.

At least what's your opinion on that?

I think there's a cognitive dissonance involved.

In psychology, they call it effort justification.

It's the same justification by which this cycle of abuse continues in residency education in medicine or in fraternity hazing.

It's this sense of I went through it and then we glamorize it and then it's okay.

Entire careers were built.

This was a $1 billion government-funded study, the largest study of any medical study of its kind.

Yeah, it was massive.

Up until that time.

And so they were dead set on proving this association.