Introduction

Stephen novella was formally invited to participate in a roundtable discussion for a Senate committee in Washington DC. He will be writing it up for science based medicine in more detail, but he wants to make some general observations at this point until he gets explicit permission of what he can and cannot say. Cara Santa Maria: "There were some interesting aspects of what happened there that I hopefully will be able to talk about at some point" Evan Bernstein: "I don't have explicit permission to talk about what happened."