First and foremost: I apologize for making a comment that came across as hostile. Perhaps my intent would have been clearer if I had said, "I don't think it WO

First and foremost: I apologize for making a comment that came across as hostile. Perhaps my intent would have been clearer if I had said, "I don't think it WOULD BE fair to say...". I did not mean to suggest that you personally believed this to be true. That said, you were clearly suggesting that it is a possibility should be taken seriously, perhaps more seriously than biomedical experts have done to date. And my addition of italics was entirely to emphasize which part of that suggestion I was responding to. In retrospect, a more careful post of mine ought to have said "[emphasis added]", though that still feels a bit like overkill to me. I think in the context of a threaded discussion I unthinkingly assumed that readers would have your original words and context freshly in mind when they saw my response. It's disappointing to me that, given our evident agreement on much of the more substantive part of my comment, you took my initial words to be a hostile and deceptive attack.