I appreciate your comment, but my attention then turns to a similar point--those in positions of authority need to have a better understanding of the underlying research. People on these medical boards should understand and should know better and therefore be completely conversant on this topic to defend it, but they don't stick to their guns. Cf. Fauci saying one thing in February 2020 and then completing changing tactics.

I understand that in some sense it is easier in engineering where you can have a safety multiplier on calculations to make sure the bridge will hold a specific load, whereas medicine is not so clean-cut or simple in that sense. There are so many factors involved that it is very complicated. But that is why this research is so important--it simplifies the factors down to manageable numbers, and yet even then the studies are ignored or are deemed "not enough." It frustrates me to no end. When you have as many studies as Gato listed above clearly showing no statistical association but the practice continues, I just get so frustrated.