What cartel???

I don’t agree, disease control science hasn’t changed since we came to understand microbes and viruses. They helped us beat polio, smallpox, typhoid, the Black Plague, Ebola, etc…
Now that we have the internet we have a new pandemic of Dunning–Kruger effect and with so much shit tossed out as initiated by Trump in person are the main reason people that resent sound disease science still misbehave by claiming that now nobody has any answers.
News flash, they’re the same old answers we’ve had for over a hundred years.
Any arguments to the contrary are completely partisan and ignorant.
The fact you both sought out and presented this article proves you hunger for a different answer one that bucks established science.
If I were you I’d do some soul searching for why I wanted to steer people toward rebelling against science in the first place. Science has no agenda other than to understand this universe, if there’s corruption it’s for profit in corporations not in science. We’ve been corrupted by the conservative notion that profit is good regardless of the cost in quality of life for our fellows and confuse the strict guidelines of science as nothing more than political authority, which is easier then understanding science.
So it’s laziness and rebellion and ego.

Sometimes I feel like one of the chimpanzee scientists from the planet of the apes surrounded by gorillas being led by an orangutan.

Now that the issue has been politicized, no truth can be found. The truth would be academic in any case. Only those with an interest in politicizing remain concerned, and the recent findings are strongly suspect as being concocted by partisans. With full-throated corruption, truth and informed action disappear.