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by jpcosta 1673 days ago
There are medical bodies staffed by professionals that study these matters, and the states (should) base their decisions on what their findings are. To me the problems starts when decision makers and then the general population start trusting fringe conclusions and trying to interpret medical data when they have no training to do so.
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Why go through state then ?

When a new cure for cancer is found, we don't expect the minister of health to recommend or advise its use to the general public on TV, do we ? We assume professional MD will learn about it via their regular channel, and recommend the treatments on patients that they judge relevant.