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True. Perhaps dissent is a poor choice of words here, because I was never against the vaccine - I would default to supporting a vaccine. More - I didn't get why everyone was so optimistic about them and asked to know more. Even that was blasphemy to a few people - but ironically not to the people who are medical experts in SOME way.

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> but ironically not to the people who are medical experts in SOME way.

The dangerous thing about expertise in a very narrow area (which most medicine is these days) is that is bolsters confidence so much that you imagining yourself an expert in an adjacent area... not realizing that you might be missing very important fundamental knowledge.

You see this often in e.g. Nobel Disease[1], but also in more mundane settings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

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