“If you are going to quote medical sources, quote them in enough context that you relay what the original authors (who are physicians and medical researchers) were actually saying”
ROTFLOL!
That’s EXACTLY what I did! Everything but my bullet point commentary was copied complete and verbatim from medscape.com, a website of doctors. What you labeled as hooey was the pro and con exchange of a group of medical professionals with differing opinion about the value and safety of Fluad.
Um... no. A thread from a forum over at Medscape, where anti-vaxxers can post freely and inject their poison into a medical conversation, is hardly comparable to actual medical literature. It is also a conversation between non-experts, which basically means that almost anything they say is speculative.
Reliable medical information contains references, which you can verify for yourself at www.pubmed.org, which is the database for all reliable peer-reviewed literature. The reliable websites, such as Mayo Clinic, WebMD, CDC, etc. all use medical journals for references. Many writers of hooey also use medical references in order to appear legitimate, but if you double check their references, you find that quotes are taken out of context, the references do not say what they claim, or the references do not actually exist in the medical literature.