No, it's more the reverse, and it has validity. "Look, even medical professionals have concerns" is a soundbite that loses a lot of its weight when you realize that in some cases, you are looking at MAs with 20 weeks of schooling, LPNs, or even CNAs (who could have had as few as 85 hours of schooling) as "medical professionals" - they can have opinions, validity, concerns - but holding them up as medical professionals worthy of higher merit to their concern has varying degrees of flimsiness.
This isn't to knock those concerns. But while neither an MD, an LPN, or a layperson is an epidemiologist, we should be exalting the opinions of them by virtue of their authority. Not because you _need_ to be an epidemiologist to have a valid opinion, but because the above buys you no more merit, in and of itself.
This isn't to knock those concerns. But while neither an MD, an LPN, or a layperson is an epidemiologist, we should be exalting the opinions of them by virtue of their authority. Not because you _need_ to be an epidemiologist to have a valid opinion, but because the above buys you no more merit, in and of itself.