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by ethbr1 27 days ago
Turn that around: you're asking for someone to make something understandable to you despite your not having the background to make an informed decision.

That process, by definition, in the perfect case, includes someone summarizing/simplifying concepts.

And that process is extremely difficult to do without bias, summarization being an information-loss activity, etc.

So essentially, you're asking for an impossible standard of communication.

Additionally, I'd point out that the basics^ of biology, immunology, pathology, and epidemiology aren't that complicated, if you're a reasonably intelligent person.

Grasping the basics of mRNA transcription, viral fragment encoding, immune system functioning, and the purpose and effects of various common vaccine adjuvants is ~20 hours of internet research.

Which is one of the reasons it really gets my goat when so many anti-vaccine folks appear not to have made any educational effort before crystalizing their loud opinions.

^ As distinct from the details, which require a lifetime to comprehend