> However,
> individually doctors are educated and critical thinkers for the most part
> and it is unlikely that they as a whole ever fully accepted the lipid
> hypothesis.

Not wanting to sound too flippant, but, "If it looks like a duck, quacks
like a duck......"

Why are many of those same doctors now publicly questioning such theories
and were not publicly questioning them back then? I doubt the AMA et al.
are any less powerful today than 10 years ago.