<div dir="ltr">Jon,<div><br></div><div>I find the statement "<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">On topics on which I'm not an expert (and that's most all of them) I defer to the consensus of the experts, not the outliers" -- the essence of our generic problem -- the consensus in matters of some complexity is frequently proven to have been wrong in the long run.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">For example when my father-in-law was active as the Medical Officer of Bossier Parish in northwest Louisiana [circa 1970's] the consensus of the experts was don't let a diabetic eat ice cream but having a boiled skinless potato or white rice was fine</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">The reality -- noted by outliers such as my father-in-law -- icecream being a complex sugar suspension [mostly: </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Lactose, </span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">a disaccharide sugar,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> with other stuff] is slow to get into the </span>bloodstream<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> -- meanwhile the simple starches in potato [not the skin] or white rice are converted to glucose by the saliva and essentially in the </span>bloodstream<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> nearly instantly</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Galileo would be another of those outliers</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Anyway -- today the CDC advisory panel [</span>Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)]<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> voted 15-0 to include the new instantiation of the MRNA COVID-19 vaccine as a recommended childhood vaccine along with the traditional and tested standards of whooping cough, etc.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Note there is no [as in NONE] human data yet available [even for review by the ACIP] from the vaccine providers only a handful of mice have been used as "guinea pigs"</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Well -- under the circumstances -- I'm skeptical of the efficacy versus safety for the youngest of our population</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Ted</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:28 PM Jon Dreyer <<a href="mailto:jon@jondreyer.org">jon@jondreyer.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">My spider sense
started tingling wildly when I saw that. It didn't take me long
to find this:
<a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/i-know-you-are-but-what-am-i-dr-asseem-malhotra-rails-against-covid-19-misinformation/" target="_blank">https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/i-know-you-are-but-what-am-i-dr-asseem-malhotra-rails-against-covid-19-misinformation/</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">If you look hard
enough, you can find something that confirms any bias. On topics
on which I'm not an expert (and that's most all of them) I defer
to the consensus of the experts, not the outliers.</font><br>
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