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Experts used to unanimously give the same expert advice to perform eugenics, apply leeches, identify moral character from head bumps, etc. Certainly there must

• wtallis 8y ago
  > Certainly there must be some room for reasonable disagreement even if the experts are unanimous, given the patchy history of experts. The patchy history of expert advice from the days before science was routinely used in medicine is not particularly relevant here. Today's expert advice about vaccination has a far stronger foundation of evidence than any of the superstitions you named. If we were talking about dietary recommendations or even psychology then it would be a lot less ridiculous to bring up leeches or phrenology, but in the context of vaccination you're being dishonest by implying any sort of equivalency.