Saying the quiet part out loud: “Do your own research” is mostly a farce. Many physicians are so busy with clinical care and administrative burden that keeping up with the rapidly expanding medical literature is genuinely difficult. Many physicians also lack formal training in program evaluation, epidemiology, and biostatistics—skills required to rigorously assess study design, bias, confounding, and internal & external validity. The general public is even less equipped. Without training in scientific methods, most people cannot reliably interpret primary research, assess evidentiary strength, or distinguish high-quality data from noise, hype, or misinformation. This isn’t a moral failing. It’s a structural reality of modern medicine and science.