I'm not sure that's any worse than a doctor misunderstanding real science.

Note that the root cause (unfamiliarity with the tools of science, especially probability and statistics) is largely the same.

> I'm not sure that's any worse than a doctor misunderstanding real science

It is worse. A highly experienced practitioner who would've done the right thing might get led astray by new bogus research. Precisely because most practitioners don't have the ability to judge scientific work on their own.

There's a difference between mistakes and being maliciously tricked into making those mistakes

Sure, there is a difference of intent, and a difference in motivating incentives, but the line is fuzzier than we like to think (eg. industries providing no-strings-attached funding to study everything but the area that has issues they wish to crowd out).

I want doctors to not treat studies like “science sez” and instead recognize that “Science is messy”. They should use their training and experience to heal, not the latest publication.