I'm close friends with a doctor who's the health officer for a county in Indiana... I'll take his advice into consideration, but not as a absolute fact. Although he spends a way more time researching this than us keyboard commandos.He's a Dr and one of the few willing to actually talk about it. Has nothing to do with alignment of my beliefs. However, it doesn't align with your beliefs so you close your mind completely to it and disregard it.
But last time I was at his house there was no serpent or bird statues, so we're good there.