The entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel has been fired.

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The idea that Experts are the only and final arbiters of truth is risky.

Experts have NIH grant money they and their team and colleagues depend on. Experts I know tailor their research to EXACTLY what the NIH wants. Outsider science doesn’t get funded by the NIH, it gets blacklisted.

I appreciate experts who are powerful enough and well funded enough to make criticism or suggest changes (for example the extremely well connected and well funded director of CHOP’s Vaccine Education Center was allowed to express his concerns and ideas about giving the COVID forth and onwards boosters to young people and even himself.) But he could have stayed silent if he felt like his career and funding was on the line, for example what happened with the COVID Origins paper.

So I think allowing non expert opinion is at least informative. In a free society allowing dialogue is not the greatest risk, silencing people is.

The illusion of evidence based medicine

Evidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation, and commercialisation of academia, argue these authors The advent of evidence based medicine was a paradigm shift intended to provide a solid scientific foundation for medicine. The validity of this new...

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BMJ = British Medical Journal

They don't want a conversation, they want their way and that's it! On another topic another person was suggesting religion (freedom of thought and belief) should be banned, how do you even work with that?