Topic: Henry Bauer

Crowe explains that the medical profession is a hierarchy where doctors follow "the book" to avoid litigation rather than acting as independent scientists. He suggests that the only way out of the current crisis is for officials to change the "diagnostic criteria" or "tighten the test" to make the epidemic disappear definitionally, as he claims happened with SARS.

The hosts discuss how the "useful idiot" model allows the elite to control scientific narratives without direct orders. By controlling education boards, university funding, and career pipelines, the establishment creates a culture of self-policing among researchers. Tsakiris references Dr. Henry Bauer's work on the economic forces and the glut of PhDs that made the scientific community easier to manipulate post-World War II.