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Your calculus forgets about side effects. If the gain is very minor then it only takes minor side effects to swing the balance.


You are welcome to compare the number of cases of suspected-but-not-confirmed side effects with the number of people getting Lyme every year.

You may find a difference of a few orders of magnitude.




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