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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Of course expert opinion evolves over time, and that is what people who do not understand science seem to have difficulty understanding. Also, headlines rarely explain why the “current” statement was made. Cleaning food when getting home from the supermarket in the early COVID days seemed reasonable. Once more data was available the opinion changed (or better yet, evolved). Newton didn’t become wrong because of relativity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John Rudy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>781-861-0402<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>781-718-8334 (cell)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu"><span style='color:#0563C1'>John.rudy@alum.mit.edu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>13 Hawthorne Lane<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Bedford, MA 01730-1047<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=99 height=94 style='width:1.0312in;height:.9791in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D8E4A5.F6FD6CD0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> LCTG <lctg-bounces+jjrudy1=comcast.net@lists.toku.us> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ted Kochanski<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jon Dreyer <jon@jondreyer.org><br><b>Cc:</b> lctg@lists.toku.us<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Concern over MRNA Covid Vaccine and Cardiac Side Effects<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jon,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I find the statement "<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",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><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",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><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The reality -- noted by outliers such as my father-in-law -- icecream being a complex sugar suspension [mostly: </span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#5F6368'>Lactose, </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#4D5156'>a disaccharide sugar,</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> with other stuff] is slow to get into the </span>bloodstream<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",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",serif'> nearly instantly</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Galileo would be another of those outliers</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Anyway -- today the CDC advisory panel [</span>Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)]<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",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><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",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><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Well -- under the circumstances -- I'm skeptical of the efficacy versus safety for the youngest of our population</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Ted</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:28 PM Jon Dreyer <<a href="mailto:jon@jondreyer.org">jon@jondreyer.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",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></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Times",serif'>Jon "Misinformation Misinformation" Dreyer<br><a href="http://www.passionatelycurious.com" target="_blank">Math Tutor/Compuer Science Tutor</a><br><a href="http://music.jondreyer.com" target="_blank">Jon Dreyer Music</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>===============================================<br>::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br>Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br>Send to the list: <a href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" target="_blank">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/</a><br>To subscribe: email <a href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us" target="_blank">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us" target="_blank">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br>Future and Past meeting information: <a href="http://LCTG.toku.us" target="_blank">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br>List information: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br>This message was sent to <a href="mailto:tedpkphd@gmail.com" target="_blank">tedpkphd@gmail.com</a>.<br>Set your list options: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/tedpkphd@gmail.com" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/tedpkphd@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>