Truth can be advanced by an individual.
But a narrative is spread by the crowd.
A significant risk in medical practice and wider society is the creation of a mass narrative. Crowd-thought. It may gain momentum that is difficult to stop. It may steam-roll healthy critique.
Assimilation into a mass narrative has been likened to hypnosis where totalitarianism can be seen as a form of mass hypnosis on a population-sized scale.
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