US Peanut Allergy Epidemic Sprang From "Experts'" Exactly-Wrong Guidance [With Zero Scientific Evidence]
Posted by freedomforall 1 week, 2 days ago to Science
Excerpt:
"In the 1980s, peanut allergies were almost entirely unheard-of. Today, the United States has one of the highest peanut-allergy rates in the world. Disturbingly, this epidemic was precipitated by institutions that exist to promote public health. The story of their malpractice illuminates the fallibility of respected institutions, and confirms that public health’s catastrophically incorrect guidance during the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t an isolated anomaly.
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There were dissident voices in medicine from the very start of the UK-led madness. One of them, London pediatric allergist and immunologist Gideon Lack, set out to prove the guidance was wrong. His initial, 2008 study showing that genetically similar populations with vastly different exposures to peanuts in infancy had correspondingly divergent peanut allergy rates wasn’t enough to overcome the entrenched dogma.
It was only after he created a randomized controlled trial — comparing the effects of peanut exposure on children between 4 and 11 months old — that he proved that, as is the case with so many other allergies, peanut exposure is preventative, not causative. Specifically, he observed that the group of children who were exposed to peanuts in their infancy had 86% fewer peanut allergies than children who’d been shielded from peanuts."
"In the 1980s, peanut allergies were almost entirely unheard-of. Today, the United States has one of the highest peanut-allergy rates in the world. Disturbingly, this epidemic was precipitated by institutions that exist to promote public health. The story of their malpractice illuminates the fallibility of respected institutions, and confirms that public health’s catastrophically incorrect guidance during the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t an isolated anomaly.
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There were dissident voices in medicine from the very start of the UK-led madness. One of them, London pediatric allergist and immunologist Gideon Lack, set out to prove the guidance was wrong. His initial, 2008 study showing that genetically similar populations with vastly different exposures to peanuts in infancy had correspondingly divergent peanut allergy rates wasn’t enough to overcome the entrenched dogma.
It was only after he created a randomized controlled trial — comparing the effects of peanut exposure on children between 4 and 11 months old — that he proved that, as is the case with so many other allergies, peanut exposure is preventative, not causative. Specifically, he observed that the group of children who were exposed to peanuts in their infancy had 86% fewer peanut allergies than children who’d been shielded from peanuts."
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those that try are attacked and silenced
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Inside I learned that the youngest niece of three sisters~~all kids back then~~had somehow acquired a peanut allergy. Their father and one of my four brothers was killed in a traffic accident about 5 years ago.
Around the turn of the century I, I went to another family reunion at that brother's home in Nashville, Tennessee. On the front door it said "NO PEANUTS" and there was a lot more people there. People who brought a lot of cooked food.
Almost all those folks were gone when I spent the night there. I was leaving for my home in the Birmingham Bama area on a weekend day when I saw my brother looking through a telephone directory and saying his youngest daughter was sick and needed to be taken to a medical something someplace.
Why? One of several cooks had included an ingredient with guess what in it and most likely did not know it. (I hope).
My niece with a peanut allergy now lives in Memphis.