[taxicabjesus]

Not sure what you mean. I hoped to start a discussion on HN about whether the scientific enterprise has been captured by profiteers.

Lots of people are angry about the COVID-19 vaccines, and are no longer getting 'boosted': https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/19/60-of-ame...

I think the character limit for a poll is ~2000 characters, so I couldn't write a whole essay.

[DamonHD]

It's not any sort of reasonable discussion if you present a very very slanted set of contentious 'options' which presume malice on the part of "science" (as if that were one cabal), and do not for example list any counter examples of self corrections or false accusations such as the autism/MMR issue, or phlogiston or the aether or the bananas claims about covid vaccines and 5G phone reception...

[taxicabjesus]

I put a top-level post on this submission requesting more poll options.

> contentious 'options' which presume malice on the part of "science"

My poll attempted to ascribed malice to the powerful people who use the trappings of science to concentrate wealth. I made a similar comment 2 days ago: "[...] the medical system has been gamed to concentrate wealth. Doctoring pays well, but doctors are much lower on medicine's economic dogpile than insurance and pharmaceutical companies." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053362

> self corrections or false accusations

I went to a seminar around 2004. The speaker mentioned a foundational science mistake from the 1800's. In the past year I've heard this mistake was corrected, but the correction was classified. <shrug>.

There is no official guide to "how to prevent your child from becoming Autistic", so this issue is still open.

Thanks for the feedback.