https://trialsitenews.com/author/joelshirschhorn/murphy_p_t wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 8:38 amYou might want to slow down and breathe before you attempt any more fact-checking.
Lifesite news is not an Evangelical website (based on the common religious description). Rather, it has a heavy Roman Catholic orientation.
Secondly, that particular editorial was written by a professor of the University of Wisconsin. So if you want to tell me that he is not a credible source for this topic, I will consider that carefully.
Dr. Hirschhorn (as far as I can see PhD, not MD) is indeed a (former) professor.....of metallurgical engineering. He has also done work in environmental consulting and management consulting. He is not a professor of biology, nor medical science, nor infectious diseases, nor immunology, nor epidemiology.
He is also a member of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons; said organization is known for promoting (or at least has at some point promoted) the now-debunked "vaccines cause autism" myth, denying that HIV causes AIDS, lobbying against indoor smoking bans, and accusing then-candidate Obama of hypnotizing voters using NLP in his speeches. Not exactly a super-reliable source of medical information and not the type of company I'd keep if I wanted people to take me seriously as a source of medical facts.
My apologies for calling it an evangelical website (although to be far I did say there were a bunch of hard-line conservative Catholic types posting on it as well). Anyhow, the last time I checked both fundamentalist evangelicals and hard-line right wing conservative Catholics are equally opposed to abortion (and equally as likely to ignore science when it suits their religious dictates) as well as being opposed to things like stem cell research, sexual freedom between consenting adults, gay marriage, and LGBTQ rights. Not much difference to me....it's like comparing cashews and pecans; they are different, true, but they're both definitely nuts. They can believe what they want to believe but when it starts conflicting with actual science, sorry; at that point, sane normal people can safely ignore them.