Safety data (from final trial) only available in 2024, so we can just guess and track adversarial reactions.
These vaccines are only safe and effective from a collective public health perspective, which necessitated emergency release.
Imagine if we had found the people who had found the truth “nutters” in these and other cases. I’d prefer “extreme disagreement” over that.
Ultimately, it comes down to humility over the claim “we’ve got it right this time, for sure, and you can’t question it now!” There are no shortage of scientist quotes saying that in the 90s. And 80s. And 70s. And 60s. And 50s. And 1850s. And 1840s. And 1740s. And so on.
Like, it's not even just one weird belief; he has a wide selection.
“Small, but real” is true for an infinitely large number of things for various magnitudes of “small”.
If I had a nickel for every time someone around me said something “nutter” that later turned out to have something to it… I’d have a lot of nickels.
Imagine if just 3 years ago I said anything of the following. “Nutter!”
- Russia will invade Ukraine. Sanctions and stupidity be darned.
- Silicon Valley Bank will go insolvent from overexposure to one of the safest investments on earth.
- There is a real, but small, connection between myocarditis and vaccination in young men.
Etc.