We have a shot to find credible info now. Pre-internet it was largely impossible.
Covid was a great example. I was able to figure that mess out over time by finding guys like John Ioannidis, Jay Bhattacharya, Michael Levit, Ivor Cummins, John Campbell, Vinay Parasad etc. Listening to them and looking into their data coupled with pre-Covid masking RCTs, Diamond Princess data, the CDC reports was enough to figures it out. Never could’ve found any of that without the internet. Complete paradigm shift.