[longhairedhippy]

Science changes as new information becomes available, that's why it's so great, it's self-correcting on a long enough timescale. If you want a 100% verifiable, stake-your-life-on-it-this-will-never-ever-change, answer, science is not for you. Using this inherent property of science as a way to deny it is disingenuous at best.

[teddyh]

You’ve got it backwards. It’s precisely because science is ever-changing that censorship of specific views is harmful. See, for example, the Soviet Union’s bet on Lysenkoism.

[longhairedhippy]

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here, it doesn't seem relevant to my comment.

My point is that using the fact that science changes as new information comes in, thus the answer science gave us yesterday may be different from the answer science gives us today.

The parent comment is using the changing conditions around vaccines, the fact that they said 1 shot, then 2 shots, now there is talk of boosters, as evidence that it was irrelevant and should be ignored. My point is that must expect any answer science provides to potentially change. If people want an answer that is unchanging, science cannot give it to them.

[belorn]

I never said vaccines should be ignored, but the fact that we do know that the neutralizing titers for mRNA vaccines has a half-time, which is known to be correlated to the effectiveness of the vaccine. People who sells those vaccines as a final solution is not following what the research actually say. The big unknowns is how much of a falloff the protection has, how quickly, and if there will be any lasting protection after the neutralizing titers are gone.

I find it a bit interesting that in about 3000 comments, very few if any are from actually doctors or researcher that advocate in favor of the block. In general it seems to be quite few that are even advocating it as a final solution to the pandemic, but rather as a tool to reduce symptoms for people who later catch the virus.

[longhairedhippy]

Much more nuance that the original post, makes sense. I don't think you conveyed this in the original comment, which I conflated with effectively "They keep changing what they say, therefore they are lying, therefore I am not getting vaccinated". Granted you didn't say that, I believe that's the way I interpreted it due to hearing the same argument from a bunch of different folks. Thanks for the clarity!