WATCH: WHEN EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE WAS REPLACED BY FEAR "Two years ago, we uncritically accepted unreliable mathematical models that predicted this kind of microbiological apocalypse.. The world panicked and embraced a whole series of draconian measures of dubious effectiveness and enormous cost.. Used fear as an agent of public policy which is totally anathema to principles of public health.. Now enormous sunk costs of reputation, of politics, that make it so hard to change and so hard for man