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These confounders are everywhere. Sort of in the way that only the dumb criminals get caught, we're probably missing many more confounding factors because our statistical analyses have limitations. Now add the stigma around questioning the vaccines political/financial pressures and you have a recipe for poor quality science.

It's not a conspiracy, people just tend to look away from things that could endanger their livelihoods. An emergent property of socioeconomic systems. A failure mode, so to speak.