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This argument is bad faith - there is a hugely important public health imperative for doctors not to peddle quackery. COVID disinformation led to a staggering loss of life, and no doctor should be permitted to participate.
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Didn't know what Orthomolecular Medicine means. Sorry, but that adds a cup of scepticism to the text and requires more reference tracking that I can afford. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomolecular_medicine
Base your statements in repeatable, peer reviewed scientific fact and no one gets hurt.
What about the case where new, largely untested therapies are being pushed on the public before they have even been around long enough for peer reviewed data on their long-term effects to become available, and the only peer-reviewed data on their short-term effects comes from trials run by the manufacturers themselves?
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What about the case where new, largely untested therapies are being pushed on the public before they have even been around long enough for peer reviewed data on their long-term effects to become available, and the only peer-reviewed data on their short-term effects comes from trials run by the manufacturers themselves?
By "untested therapies," are you referring to a medical technology that's existed for several hundred years?
Didn't know what Orthomolecular Medicine means. Sorry, but that adds a cup of scepticism to the text and requires more reference tracking that I can afford. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomolecular_medicine
Doesn't help that the one concrete example of "dissent" in the text itself is about covid vaccines, which afaik are pretty much a settled issue in terms of safety and efficacy.
This argument is bad faith - there is a hugely important public health imperative for doctors not to peddle quackery. COVID disinformation led to a staggering loss of life, and no doctor should be permitted to participate.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
By "untested therapies," are you referring to a medical technology that's existed for several hundred years?
I had in mind PEG-coated-mRNA and adenovirus vaccines which cause the body's own cells to express a close analog to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antigen, a thoroughly novel approach which was rolled out to the general public roughly nine months after the very first tests were administered in humans, and in the case of mRNA vaccines more broadly, was described in articles as late as 2017 as potentially having problems…