OK, I am busted. This has been a rather guilty pleasure at trolling this thread with the initial post from zerohedge.com, which is complete looney toons.
Anyway, I am fully vax'd with an advanced statistical degree with an emphasis on epidemiology.
Bottom line, please beware of any individual with a bunch of letters after their name. You can't swing a dead cat at HQ without hitting a Ph.D., MD, MBA, or JD; sometimes even a Ph.D./MD. How has that worked out? They are just as prone to cognitive fallacies as anyone else.