Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you both for coming.
Dr. Waisglass, I noted that in one of your comments you talked about.... I wasn't at the previous meeting, but you were referring to the previous witnesses in medical research and clinicians as being, in your words, “entrenched” in the medical system and over-exaggerating the harms and underestimating the benefit.
Full disclosure: I'm a physician. I also spent five years doing medical research before I was in medical school.
When you look at the levels of evidence that we have to have.... For instance, if there's a new blood pressure drug, you have your basic science research. You then have your animal trials. You have your human trials. You have your gold standard, the randomized clinical trials. Given the backgrounds of people, with these different methods, what evidence is there to counteract what they're saying from their knowledge and experience? What is the level of evidence to say that, no, these high doses are not harmful, or to say that these benefits are there, when others who are performing medical research in clinical medicine don't agree?