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> too much confidence in published research and not enough confidence in your local health officials

I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic, or if you really do think that a local politician knows more about medicine than is contained in actual medical research.

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He's been talking with "the local health department", not some local politician. I trust health departments a lot more than I trust techies grepping PubMed. Techies don't have the context to understand and filter bogus research. Studies that correlate Vitamin D deficiency with X goes straight to the mental spam filter for experienced people in public health. If Vitamin D deficiency actually caused all this disease we would be living in a golden age of progress on cancer, heart disease, infectious disease, mental health, etc. because Vitamin D deficiency is easy and cheap to treat.

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