This article is preaching to the faithful. I recognize the techniques because I myself have, in the past, amused myself by becoming a false profit.
If the Science wants vaccines to be accepted whole-heartedly by the public it has to figure out why children become autistic and how to prevent this class of developmental deterioration.
As it is, the anti-vaxxers are doing Science by themselves, and elect themselves to be the control group. They’re using the prescientific observations that Measles and all the other vaccine-preventable illnesses are entirely survivable for mostly-healthy children, and the scientific fine print that suggests natural immunity is always better than vaccine-derived immunity (percentage of every outbreaks consists of people who didn’t get their measles booster, etc).
> […] the COVID-19 pandemic has only stoked vaccine misinformation and more anti-vaccine rhetoric.
My mom just had another case of the COVID-19, according to the probably-expired home COVID test. I don’t know how many times she’s been boosted. She said there’s no booster for the latest variant. Luckily she’s pulled through her latest SARS-CoV-2 infection. I’m sure as soon as the next booster is made available she’ll let her doctor administer it.
If the Science wants vaccines to be accepted whole-heartedly by the public it has to figure out why children become autistic and how to prevent this class of developmental deterioration.
As it is, the anti-vaxxers are doing Science by themselves, and elect themselves to be the control group. They’re using the prescientific observations that Measles and all the other vaccine-preventable illnesses are entirely survivable for mostly-healthy children, and the scientific fine print that suggests natural immunity is always better than vaccine-derived immunity (percentage of every outbreaks consists of people who didn’t get their measles booster, etc).
> […] the COVID-19 pandemic has only stoked vaccine misinformation and more anti-vaccine rhetoric.
My mom just had another case of the COVID-19, according to the probably-expired home COVID test. I don’t know how many times she’s been boosted. She said there’s no booster for the latest variant. Luckily she’s pulled through her latest SARS-CoV-2 infection. I’m sure as soon as the next booster is made available she’ll let her doctor administer it.
The response to “COVID” couldn’t have done anything more to increase “vaccine hesitancy”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908797