I agree with you wholeheartedly in many respects, I've been diabetic for 15 years and like you the best information I've received is through this site...and it's turned my life around and although still early days...has helped me to really get my life and diabetes back on track for which I am truly thankful.
However as I said in an earlier post...'In contrast if you view it from another angle, the 'breaking news' that fat isn't as bad as once thought and the science and studies relating to it is still catching up and it may take some time for this information and related data to filter through the system'.
I read an article the other day posted by LucySW regarding a paper by Malcolm Kendrick it was a fascinating read but he made a remark in regards to a comment made by one of his lecturers in his first year training as a doctor... 'welcome to the brotherhood'...he goes on to explain this in terms of religion and control...finally found the link...
http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/...it's under the heading 'Medicine - Science or Religion...there is a lot of info building up to it and would recommend that you read it in it's entirety (or at least this section of it...it makes a lot of sense) below is a brief snippet of it.
'Primarily, it becomes extremely difficult for you, or the rest of the brotherhood, to admit that you don’t know something? Or that things you have been telling people, or doing, are in fact useless or wrong. Because if you start doing that, you fear you may lose your hard won authority, control and respect. Equally, if patients no longer believe, or trust in you, or your advice, what then? Fear stalks the land. Metaphorical skull crushing looms.
This is why, if you are a patient who feels that your treatment has not worked as you were told it would, or should, you will not find an eager audience for your complaints within the medical profession. Equally if you question or refuse the sacrament, sorry treatment, your doctor is likely to become very angry with you.'
As you say...you don't trust your doctors advice...and actually from doing my own research...neither do I...but knowledge is power...by doing your own research and challenging their advice if you feel it is incorrect you are better placed to ask the relevant questions to obtain the correct information.