I go on to talk about the role of high adult vaccination rates in the summer in driving lower case rates and making things safer for children. Most of this nuance was lost in the headline. (4/n)
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what current scientific understanding are you even talking about? Emily cited data summarized by the CDC regarding death and hospitalization rates by age. These numbers are basically undisputed. People, including doctors, disagree about what to do based on that info
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It’s ludicrous to pretend that on every single issue there is some unanimous expert consensus. When I tell you other doctors and scientists disagree with anything you label the expert belief you will just declare them to be non-experts. It’s circular. It’s magical thinking
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It's not as though this is. my first rodeo either. I've been writing about this particular topic on and off for quite some time, for instance, in 2015.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/on-the-right-to-challenge-a-medical-or-scientific-consensus/ …
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Glad you brought up the Harry Collins via Chris Mooney piece. He described a complexity that few get.
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I, too, remember all the times that MDs' and PhDs' errors were uncovered by specialists in wildly unrelated fields It happens, but
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