Eric Topol

What comments do you have about that?

I think, first off— I hope so, because it's looking pretty bleak right now, Tom.

Yeah.

Well, you know, you touched on, again, the seeing part of our environmental toxins.

not just air pollution, you mentioned the particulate matter 2.5, but also microplastics, nanoplastics.

We know they are causing harm.

You already have studies in blood vessels, the brain and whatnot.

Reproductive health as well, maybe accounting for part of that issue.

But instead of this movement to try to have a healthier America, we're going in the wrong direction.

And of course, denying even climate change and its intersection with another pandemic is also, you know, part of the story.

So in so many ways, we're going backwards.

And you have provided us, you know, a way forward, which is sensible.

It's pretty simple.

You know, that's what's good about it is, you know, the knowledge to prevent.

It's all about that.

It's not about, it's about ignoring or denying.

I mean, what we have with this Cassandra's curse is a lot of denialism.

And this is really unfortunate.

I like your optimism about where we can head, but I don't see any of it.

Like, for example, yesterday was published an important paper about COVID in children and teens.