So basically, you’re saying I should have had rich parents? Darn! Where was this sage wisdom when I was a fetus choosing my parents?

Don’t forget scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, puerperal fever, and the plague!

What did ChatGPT tell him to do, exactly?

Fake. Not the right price. Not the right dosage. Not a likely reaction even at that dose.

The idea that its scientists vs bloggers was created by PR firms. It’s scientists and bloggers vs scientists and bloggers. Both sides have geniuses and idiots.

I was skinny my entire life despite eating far more calories than I could possibly burn. My greatest/only weight gain happened during an experiment with intermittent fasting.

Many prominent antivaxxers are MDs. A Nobel prize winner in immunology ranks among antivaxxers. There are experts on both sides.

But there are plenty of antivaxxers with PHDs…

I’m inclined to agree. But that demonstrates the point: you can find highly credentialed and educated experts on both sides of any issue.

Vaccines are unique in that one side (big pharma) has unlimited money, while the other side (doctors, scientists, and parents) don’t have nearly the same funding, and stand to lose everything by speaking out, yet still do at great personal cost.

Source? Legitimately want to read about the sewage thing.

Unfortunately, it’s not a great study. It relies on a lot of assumptions, including assuming that different school districts would be equal in terms of their students’ innate ability quality of education and it doesn’t have a placebo group.

It’s not a 1 in a million chance. It’s a lot higher.

Do you know how vaccines (live attenuated or adjuvanated) work?

Your privilege is showing. If you had 500 bucks a month lying around in your 20s, you were a lot better off than you realize.

I think then it’s a question of if he continues to get vaccinated, gets his children vaccinated, etc.

If yes: hypocrite If no: he’s someone who changed his mind

Changing your mind doesn’t automatically equal hypocrisy.

Joke? While I don’t know if you’re male or female, I really, sincerely suspect you have a small, wispy mustache.

You sound like a boomer.

Ok boomer

What antivax “think tanks” are paying 10x a doctor’s salary? And why? There’s not exactly a lot of money in it.

If money is your motivation, you work for Pharma, not against them.

Yes. The debate was about whether highly credentialed and educated experts can be wrong due to perverse incentives. As you pointed out, yes they can.

You can find so-called experts on both sides of any issue, so saying “a subset of so-called experts agree with me” is not a slam dunk argument.

You only had 100 dollars yet you put 500 dollars away each month?