Richard Vallée
@richardvallee.bsky.social
I play language. Mostly irreverent. Debugger.
AI. Global warming. Integrity. Health. Science.
Chronically ill punk rocker.
I think about the future a lot.
AI. Global warming. Integrity. Health. Science.
Chronically ill punk rocker.
I think about the future a lot.
Hundreds of trials of exercise and rehabilitation have been performed to treat post-infectious chronic illness. Literally hundreds.
Dozens more are ongoing and planned, most for LC.
Even though literally not a single thing has been learned out of it. Not one damn thing.
This industry is a fraud.
Dozens more are ongoing and planned, most for LC.
Even though literally not a single thing has been learned out of it. Not one damn thing.
This industry is a fraud.
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Hundreds of trials of exercise and rehabilitation have been performed to treat post-infectious chronic illness. Literally hundreds.
Dozens more are ongoing and planned, most for LC.
Even though literally not a single thing has been learned out of it. Not one damn thing.
This industry is a fraud.
Dozens more are ongoing and planned, most for LC.
Even though literally not a single thing has been learned out of it. Not one damn thing.
This industry is a fraud.
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Watching public health and infection control handle SARS / Covid this is the least surprising outcome ever.
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Bravo #Antivaxxers 👏👏👏
After a yearlong outbreak that has infected more than 5,000 people & killed 2 infants, 🇨🇦 Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly 3 decades, held since 1998 -
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Bravo #Antivaxxers 👏👏👏
After a yearlong outbreak that has infected more than 5,000 people & killed 2 infants, 🇨🇦 Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly 3 decades, held since 1998 -
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses measles elimination status, federal officials announce | CBC News
Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada said on Monday.
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Watching public health and infection control handle SARS / Covid this is the least surprising outcome ever.
Governments will not work on solving illnesses like Long Covid and ME/CFS.
Even after a predicted increase because of COVID, they will simply lie about it and cover it up. Just as they've always done.
The LC community needs to wake up to this. The medical profession will not be helping either.
Even after a predicted increase because of COVID, they will simply lie about it and cover it up. Just as they've always done.
The LC community needs to wake up to this. The medical profession will not be helping either.
‘If you’re disabled, you’re not ill.’
Sir Charlie Mayfield (author of the Keep Britain Working review)
This is who’s shaping UK disability employment policy. Shocking, he doesn’t even understand the basics.
I’m disabled because I’m chronically ill with #MECFS.
Sir Charlie Mayfield (author of the Keep Britain Working review)
This is who’s shaping UK disability employment policy. Shocking, he doesn’t even understand the basics.
I’m disabled because I’m chronically ill with #MECFS.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Governments will not work on solving illnesses like Long Covid and ME/CFS.
Even after a predicted increase because of COVID, they will simply lie about it and cover it up. Just as they've always done.
The LC community needs to wake up to this. The medical profession will not be helping either.
Even after a predicted increase because of COVID, they will simply lie about it and cover it up. Just as they've always done.
The LC community needs to wake up to this. The medical profession will not be helping either.
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This clip from 2018 perfectly captures just how passionate @davetuller1.bsky.social is and how shocked he was by the way the PACE trial was defended.
His crowd funding has just 1 day to go and he’s ~$10k from his target. I’ve just donated again so he can carry on doing his important work
His crowd funding has just 1 day to go and he’s ~$10k from his target. I’ve just donated again so he can carry on doing his important work
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This clip from 2018 perfectly captures just how passionate @davetuller1.bsky.social is and how shocked he was by the way the PACE trial was defended.
His crowd funding has just 1 day to go and he’s ~$10k from his target. I’ve just donated again so he can carry on doing his important work
His crowd funding has just 1 day to go and he’s ~$10k from his target. I’ve just donated again so he can carry on doing his important work
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Many thanks to @davetuller1.bsky.social for the chance to chat about my book and its resonance with #MECFS, #LongCovid, and the war on disabled people
(For those interested in reading more, pls check here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)
(For those interested in reading more, pls check here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)
Interview with Brian Hughes, professor of psychology and University of Galway in Ireland.
YouTube video by David M Tuller
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Many thanks to @davetuller1.bsky.social for the chance to chat about my book and its resonance with #MECFS, #LongCovid, and the war on disabled people
(For those interested in reading more, pls check here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)
(For those interested in reading more, pls check here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)
The full story of chronic illnesses like Long Covid and ME/CFS isn't missed opportunities, it's wasted opportunities.
Every tiny step forward, the product of years of work from hundreds to thousands of people, can simply be cancelled.
The failure of the medical profession is truly historic here.
Every tiny step forward, the product of years of work from hundreds to thousands of people, can simply be cancelled.
The failure of the medical profession is truly historic here.
💸 German government cutting millions in Long COVID funding
🛌 Study found 1.4% of people with documented COVID-19 case were diagnosed with Long COVID
😷 Scientist who alerted world that SARS-CoV-2 was airborne recognized with prestigious science prize
#LongCOVID research updates: bit.ly/4okEB3u
🛌 Study found 1.4% of people with documented COVID-19 case were diagnosed with Long COVID
😷 Scientist who alerted world that SARS-CoV-2 was airborne recognized with prestigious science prize
#LongCOVID research updates: bit.ly/4okEB3u
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The full story of chronic illnesses like Long Covid and ME/CFS isn't missed opportunities, it's wasted opportunities.
Every tiny step forward, the product of years of work from hundreds to thousands of people, can simply be cancelled.
The failure of the medical profession is truly historic here.
Every tiny step forward, the product of years of work from hundreds to thousands of people, can simply be cancelled.
The failure of the medical profession is truly historic here.
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Every single window of opportunity and line of scientific inquiry to dig deeper in the field of ME/cfs has been squandered, suppressed or sabotaged. I wish saying this was an exaggeration, but unfortunately for us pwME, it is not.
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Every single window of opportunity and line of scientific inquiry to dig deeper in the field of ME/cfs has been squandered, suppressed or sabotaged. I wish saying this was an exaggeration, but unfortunately for us pwME, it is not.
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Post hoc "scientific debate" via the medium of journal correspondence changes absolutely nothing.
The key is to publish your absolute drivel in such huge quantity that it cannot be avoided in the literature, and effectively drowns out anyone else.
A few key charlatans worked this out early on.
The key is to publish your absolute drivel in such huge quantity that it cannot be avoided in the literature, and effectively drowns out anyone else.
A few key charlatans worked this out early on.
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Post hoc "scientific debate" via the medium of journal correspondence changes absolutely nothing.
The key is to publish your absolute drivel in such huge quantity that it cannot be avoided in the literature, and effectively drowns out anyone else.
A few key charlatans worked this out early on.
The key is to publish your absolute drivel in such huge quantity that it cannot be avoided in the literature, and effectively drowns out anyone else.
A few key charlatans worked this out early on.
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I've been looking at this for a decade now, and I think this is the fundamental flaw in the way that everyone thinks Science is supposed to work, because it doesn't.
1. Publish a load of 💩
2. Get loads of letters about it and publish a false balance.
3. Wonder why nothing ever moves forward. 😩
1. Publish a load of 💩
2. Get loads of letters about it and publish a false balance.
3. Wonder why nothing ever moves forward. 😩
"We have received 41 other letters making very similar points to those of Ms Hartnell and Dr Wookey - Ed, BMJ"
Yeah. Maybe try actually listening to what they say, one day? 🙄
Yeah. Maybe try actually listening to what they say, one day? 🙄
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I've been looking at this for a decade now, and I think this is the fundamental flaw in the way that everyone thinks Science is supposed to work, because it doesn't.
1. Publish a load of 💩
2. Get loads of letters about it and publish a false balance.
3. Wonder why nothing ever moves forward. 😩
1. Publish a load of 💩
2. Get loads of letters about it and publish a false balance.
3. Wonder why nothing ever moves forward. 😩
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Nothing has boosted the conspiracy fantasies and antivax communities like medical professionals minimizing the risks of infectious diseases, even arguing they are good for health, and denying the long-term consequences of COVID.
It legitimized them by saying all the same things. Giant failure.
It legitimized them by saying all the same things. Giant failure.
Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this.
Is Canada losing the battle against #measles? Country could soon lose elimination status. Q+A w/ @msmacrophage.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... via @cbcnews.ca #vaccination
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Nothing has boosted the conspiracy fantasies and antivax communities like medical professionals minimizing the risks of infectious diseases, even arguing they are good for health, and denying the long-term consequences of COVID.
It legitimized them by saying all the same things. Giant failure.
It legitimized them by saying all the same things. Giant failure.
Health care services cannot provide services they don't know how to perform.
There are no treatments, so unless the clinics are heavily involved in research, which they are not, they are a complete waste of resources.
And they sure are. Not a single thing has been achieved here. Not one.
There are no treatments, so unless the clinics are heavily involved in research, which they are not, they are a complete waste of resources.
And they sure are. Not a single thing has been achieved here. Not one.
Australia: Nurse among patients calling for better access to long COVID treatment
Former ICU nurse Julie Mirtschen, 43, from Port Macquarie, developed long COVID after back-to-back flu and COVID infections in March 2020.
Researchers say she’s among up to 870,000 Australians living with long COVID.
Former ICU nurse Julie Mirtschen, 43, from Port Macquarie, developed long COVID after back-to-back flu and COVID infections in March 2020.
Researchers say she’s among up to 870,000 Australians living with long COVID.
Long COVID patients seeking help 'let down by the system'
Patients are calling for better access to long COVID care after the closure of one of the country's last public clinics.
www.abc.net.au
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Health care services cannot provide services they don't know how to perform.
There are no treatments, so unless the clinics are heavily involved in research, which they are not, they are a complete waste of resources.
And they sure are. Not a single thing has been achieved here. Not one.
There are no treatments, so unless the clinics are heavily involved in research, which they are not, they are a complete waste of resources.
And they sure are. Not a single thing has been achieved here. Not one.
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This article will be on interest to ME/CFS patients, and probably Long Covid patients too. Please donate to Dr David Tuller if you are able to. He's worked so hard for us all for so long! 🙂 👍
virology.ws/2025/10/25/t...
virology.ws/2025/10/25/t...
Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Ten Years of Trial By Error | Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH Ten years ago this month, I launched Trial By Error with a 15,000-word investigation of the misbegotten and fraudulent PACE trial, whi ...
virology.ws
October 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This article will be on interest to ME/CFS patients, and probably Long Covid patients too. Please donate to Dr David Tuller if you are able to. He's worked so hard for us all for so long! 🙂 👍
virology.ws/2025/10/25/t...
virology.ws/2025/10/25/t...
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"My preliminary work with students has identified a similar trend in #longCOVID exercise studies [...] The mixing of participants who may and may not respond normally to physical loading is probably also now confounding results in LC literature.”
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
No Evidence Supports Using Graded Exercise for ME/CFS
Studies examining the effects of activity-based interventions haven’t required post-exertional malaise as a core criterion for the now-termed ‘myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.’
www.medscape.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"My preliminary work with students has identified a similar trend in #longCOVID exercise studies [...] The mixing of participants who may and may not respond normally to physical loading is probably also now confounding results in LC literature.”
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Not surprising, a claim made without evidence, even against evidence, was false all along.
This belief stemmed from speculative scenarios about people being bed-bound for weeks with severe illness ending up severely deconditioned.
This was always false. Always. A fraudulent lie.
This belief stemmed from speculative scenarios about people being bed-bound for weeks with severe illness ending up severely deconditioned.
This was always false. Always. A fraudulent lie.
"Graded exercise" is neither supported by evidence nor recommended for people with an illness defined by worsening with exercise. #mecfs #longcovid www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
No Evidence Supports Using Graded Exercise for ME/CFS
Studies examining the effects of activity-based interventions haven’t required post-exertional malaise as a core criterion for the now-termed ‘myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.’
www.medscape.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Not surprising, a claim made without evidence, even against evidence, was false all along.
This belief stemmed from speculative scenarios about people being bed-bound for weeks with severe illness ending up severely deconditioned.
This was always false. Always. A fraudulent lie.
This belief stemmed from speculative scenarios about people being bed-bound for weeks with severe illness ending up severely deconditioned.
This was always false. Always. A fraudulent lie.
Those are actually the hallmark features of ME/CFS.
Medicine has completely botched everything dealing with ME/CFS for decades, has refused thousands of opportunities to do better about it.
And yet again it has been botched so completely that the past doesn't even exist, erased from existence.
Medicine has completely botched everything dealing with ME/CFS for decades, has refused thousands of opportunities to do better about it.
And yet again it has been botched so completely that the past doesn't even exist, erased from existence.
Medscape: 'Secondary Infections and Long COVID in Kids: What Pediatricians Need to Know'
'...pediatricians should watch for are profound fatigue and post-exertional malaise..this is a debilitating and hallmark symptom of long COVID..'
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
'...pediatricians should watch for are profound fatigue and post-exertional malaise..this is a debilitating and hallmark symptom of long COVID..'
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Long COVID in Kids: What Pediatricians Need to Know
New research suggests that children and teens who get COVID a second time face twice the risk for developing long COVID.
www.medscape.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Those are actually the hallmark features of ME/CFS.
Medicine has completely botched everything dealing with ME/CFS for decades, has refused thousands of opportunities to do better about it.
And yet again it has been botched so completely that the past doesn't even exist, erased from existence.
Medicine has completely botched everything dealing with ME/CFS for decades, has refused thousands of opportunities to do better about it.
And yet again it has been botched so completely that the past doesn't even exist, erased from existence.
For years, the opposite has been asserted by thousands of physicians. Without any evidence. Just wishful thinking & hopium.
The corrections will not change anything. Lies splashed large on page A1, corrections years later, in small print, and no one in a position to do something about it cares.
The corrections will not change anything. Lies splashed large on page A1, corrections years later, in small print, and no one in a position to do something about it cares.
- every subsequent infection is a gamble with a child’s long-term health
#LongCovid
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
#LongCovid
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Long COVID in Kids: What Pediatricians Need to Know
New research suggests that children and teens who get COVID a second time face twice the risk for developing long COVID.
www.medscape.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For years, the opposite has been asserted by thousands of physicians. Without any evidence. Just wishful thinking & hopium.
The corrections will not change anything. Lies splashed large on page A1, corrections years later, in small print, and no one in a position to do something about it cares.
The corrections will not change anything. Lies splashed large on page A1, corrections years later, in small print, and no one in a position to do something about it cares.
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5-page @scienceforme.bsky.social post-exertional malaise ( #PEM ) fact sheet
www.s4me.info/docs/PEM_Fac...
Headings:
-Characteristics of PEM
-Symptoms of PEM
-Exertion and other PEM triggers
-Effects of exertion that are not PEM
-Living with PEM
-Examples of PEM
-Research on PEM
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME
www.s4me.info/docs/PEM_Fac...
Headings:
-Characteristics of PEM
-Symptoms of PEM
-Exertion and other PEM triggers
-Effects of exertion that are not PEM
-Living with PEM
-Examples of PEM
-Research on PEM
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME
October 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
5-page @scienceforme.bsky.social post-exertional malaise ( #PEM ) fact sheet
www.s4me.info/docs/PEM_Fac...
Headings:
-Characteristics of PEM
-Symptoms of PEM
-Exertion and other PEM triggers
-Effects of exertion that are not PEM
-Living with PEM
-Examples of PEM
-Research on PEM
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME
www.s4me.info/docs/PEM_Fac...
Headings:
-Characteristics of PEM
-Symptoms of PEM
-Exertion and other PEM triggers
-Effects of exertion that are not PEM
-Living with PEM
-Examples of PEM
-Research on PEM
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME
Thousands of people warned about this from early 2020. Millions since.
The medical profession dismissed it all. Most are still not capable of not blaming TikTok, or whatever.
Still nothing is being done about it. Totally passive systemic failure.
The medical profession dismissed it all. Most are still not capable of not blaming TikTok, or whatever.
Still nothing is being done about it. Totally passive systemic failure.
COVID-19 Brought About a Large Rise in POTS Cases
The study found COVID caused a surge in POTS, confirming a strong infection link.
Cases rose from 4.21 per month (Jan 2018–Mar 2020) to 22.66 per month (Mar 2020–Jun 2024) — a more than 5-fold increase in this once-rare condition.
archive.li/pN2gb
The study found COVID caused a surge in POTS, confirming a strong infection link.
Cases rose from 4.21 per month (Jan 2018–Mar 2020) to 22.66 per month (Mar 2020–Jun 2024) — a more than 5-fold increase in this once-rare condition.
archive.li/pN2gb
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thousands of people warned about this from early 2020. Millions since.
The medical profession dismissed it all. Most are still not capable of not blaming TikTok, or whatever.
Still nothing is being done about it. Totally passive systemic failure.
The medical profession dismissed it all. Most are still not capable of not blaming TikTok, or whatever.
Still nothing is being done about it. Totally passive systemic failure.
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Now of course many years have passed, and faces have changed, but the ideology is still broadly the same.
That Long Covid is a psychosomatic or so-called "functional" disorder, that has more to do with "lockdowns" than with SARS2 infection per se.
It's all through the report.
That Long Covid is a psychosomatic or so-called "functional" disorder, that has more to do with "lockdowns" than with SARS2 infection per se.
It's all through the report.
October 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Now of course many years have passed, and faces have changed, but the ideology is still broadly the same.
That Long Covid is a psychosomatic or so-called "functional" disorder, that has more to do with "lockdowns" than with SARS2 infection per se.
It's all through the report.
That Long Covid is a psychosomatic or so-called "functional" disorder, that has more to do with "lockdowns" than with SARS2 infection per se.
It's all through the report.
A more important question is why there is STILL total inaction?
Nothing was done about this, despite ample warnings and evidence in early 2020.
But that's not the main issue: there is still nothing being done about it. This is not just the past, it's the present and the indefinite future.
Nothing was done about this, despite ample warnings and evidence in early 2020.
But that's not the main issue: there is still nothing being done about it. This is not just the past, it's the present and the indefinite future.
3rd - Why was there such total inaction?
There could/should have been an approach to reopening schools that maximise their safety with effective use of NPI's - all 4 Govs knowingly left families uninformed/ unprotected from risk.
"Long Covid remains a roulette"
#CleanAir #LongCovidKids
There could/should have been an approach to reopening schools that maximise their safety with effective use of NPI's - all 4 Govs knowingly left families uninformed/ unprotected from risk.
"Long Covid remains a roulette"
#CleanAir #LongCovidKids
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A more important question is why there is STILL total inaction?
Nothing was done about this, despite ample warnings and evidence in early 2020.
But that's not the main issue: there is still nothing being done about it. This is not just the past, it's the present and the indefinite future.
Nothing was done about this, despite ample warnings and evidence in early 2020.
But that's not the main issue: there is still nothing being done about it. This is not just the past, it's the present and the indefinite future.
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I really feel like there must be a course in the public health leadership curriculum on "What to do when you don't know the answer" where the entire content is "Just make something up, everyone who's not one of us is stupid and it's ok if some of them die as long as it protects our authority"
I’m not sure what you mean Mark 🤔
oh wait 🤨
oh wait 🤨
October 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I really feel like there must be a course in the public health leadership curriculum on "What to do when you don't know the answer" where the entire content is "Just make something up, everyone who's not one of us is stupid and it's ok if some of them die as long as it protects our authority"
'Forgotten' is passive voice. This negligence is an act, a choice.
The refusal to do anything to help those suffering from chronic illness is a choice, made by medical professionals, supported by their institutions.
It may poorly excuse the first few months, but nothing has changed since.
The refusal to do anything to help those suffering from chronic illness is a choice, made by medical professionals, supported by their institutions.
It may poorly excuse the first few months, but nothing has changed since.
UK: Covid Inquiry reveals ‘forgotten’ children left disabled by Long Covid.
"Long Covid Kids supports over 11,000 children whose parents say they have been 'gas lit' by NHS, schools and social services, as the inquiry uncovered pandemic-era advice against diagnosing the condition"
archive.li/YNcmY
"Long Covid Kids supports over 11,000 children whose parents say they have been 'gas lit' by NHS, schools and social services, as the inquiry uncovered pandemic-era advice against diagnosing the condition"
archive.li/YNcmY
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
'Forgotten' is passive voice. This negligence is an act, a choice.
The refusal to do anything to help those suffering from chronic illness is a choice, made by medical professionals, supported by their institutions.
It may poorly excuse the first few months, but nothing has changed since.
The refusal to do anything to help those suffering from chronic illness is a choice, made by medical professionals, supported by their institutions.
It may poorly excuse the first few months, but nothing has changed since.
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For several years, I have spent my time busting terrible and even fraudulent research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. If this crowdfunding works out, I will do one more in the spring and then retire from Berkeley. If you'd like to support my work, here's how: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025
Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
For several years, I have spent my time busting terrible and even fraudulent research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. If this crowdfunding works out, I will do one more in the spring and then retire from Berkeley. If you'd like to support my work, here's how: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
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The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.
October 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.