Then tell me precisely how I protest too much. Making measured arguments that challenge the received wisdoms of the time may not be a pitch for popularity but they're a damn sight better, and certainly harder won, than your facile cheap shots. As for you, Donuel, as ever, you demonstrate that you couldn't argue your way out of a paper bag. As they say, and I could be misquoting, better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it. Incidentally, It's been more than implied several times that I don't know what I'm talking about when I visit the likes of the Trump thread and other Yankee threads on diets and vaccines, etc. Thing is, we sullen Brits are allowed one thread. You have multiple threads available to you in your neck of the woods in which you can pontificate to your heart's content in your obscurantist and over-clever style about matters to do with the pandemic, diets, Trump and the rest. My polite advice to you is that you should stay in your Merkin-inspired threads on these topics. My impolite advice can wait for now.