| It's because none of these claims are valid or reputable. Anti-vaxxers are making up these claims out of whole cloth, and if people spend any reasonable amount of time debunking it, then the anti-vaxxers will fall back on the same playbook as always: 1. The debunking is a lie/hoax, you can't trust these people they're working for big pharma. 2. Okay well that might not be true but what about this other completely manufactured claim? 3. This doesn't prove anything because <pseudo-science explanation> Take a read here: https://observers.france24.com/en/science/20210811-covid-19-... Excerpt: > This first video shows small balls in a Petri dish moving in a strange way and connecting in a chain. It was widely circulated on social media early last week. The caption claims that it shows “graphene oxide" in the vaccine. > Our team carried out a reverse image search and found the original version of the video on the YouTube channel of the "Stanford Complexity Group", linked to the American university of the same name. > The video, called "Self Assembling Wires", shows steel ball bearings floating in castor oil in a Petri dish with a metal rim. An electrical current moves the balls when voltage is applied to them, and they connect to one another. There is absolutely no graphene or graphene oxide in the dish. The reason people don't spend their time debunking these claims is that the people originating them are not making them in good faith. Doing real science to debunk blatant lies loses because it takes a lot longer to reproduce an alleged 'experiment' than it does to download a video and record new audio over top to claim it's something that it's not. If these claims were real, then reputable sources would be reproducing them and there would be a discussion. Instead, the claims are completely fabricated and posted by random people with no credentials (or fake credentials), with baseless claims being made to support what they assert is happening. |