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This is a great illustration of Surowiecki's contempt for those who disagree with him about the #vax. Hilariously, he is the author of THE WISDOM OF CROWDS, but has decided the #AntiVax crowd has no wisdom at all.
Let's examine his sneers, as he tells us what we ought to think.

We should be opposed to Monoclonal Antibody therapy, because it isn't FDA approved yet. Implicit in this is the idea that one can't evaluate the FDA or its decisions intelligently. We are just too stupid for that
(unlike other crowds, which are oh, so wise).

He claims MAB trials started just before those of the #vaccines. I turn to Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclona…, and find that MABs were developed in 1975, and the developers won the 1984 Nobel Prize for Medicine that achievement.
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Whenever I see an ellipsis like the one in the quoted tweet, I get to wondering what was left out. #EditingIsLying, after all.

Turned out Mr. Charles was himself quoting a secondary source. After some work, I found the words were from an address to the Notre Dame law school
graduating class of 2006. She said to them that "I decided to talk to you today about what it might mean for you
to be a different kind of lawyer." But different how? After four paragraphs on what she didn't mean, she laid it out.
"So what then, does it mean to be a different kind of lawyer? The implications of our Catholic mission for your legal education are many, and don’t worry—I’m not going to explore them all in this short speech. I’m just going to identify one way in which I hope that you,
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