John Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

We all bring a variety of different life skills to the committee, but I am worried that some of the scientifically inexperienced members may have an understanding that somehow there is a consensus in Germany that is different from a consensus in Ireland. I can tell someone with a high degree of confidence what treatment one of my patients will get where, as happens, he or she goes for an international second opinion. I have a pretty good idea what he or she will hear if he or she goes to see the head of breast oncology at Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Stanford, or the Royal Marsden. I know what is being published and have a couple of hundred papers myself. Many of these people are amply published. Dr. Cryan has given the most masterful and professional testimony I have ever heard anyone give to the committee. It has been forensic, accurate, dispassionate and informed and I commend him on it. There are mainstream infectious disease professors in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hanover and Munich. Is any of them espousing the notion or technique of, to say his name as he was here, Dr. Schwarzbach? If Deputy Griffin thinks the question is inappropriate, I ask him to refuse to answer it.