Being a doctor with status is no guarantee of judgment. I well recall the days of the “recovered memory” hysteria, when distinguished authors and department heads of respectable hospitals jumped on the weirdo bandwagon, pressuring vulnerable female patients to “remember” when their fathers raped them as infants etc and then encouraged them to sue so they “could heal.”.
Most of those doctors long ago were forced to go into other lines of work after their malpractice insurance companies were relieved of millions of dollars and they were delicensed by embarrassed state licensing boards.
Funny, but then, as now, the evil was mostly instigated and fueled by feminist women.
Salem Witch Trials, anyone?