Not relevant to the context of that exchange.
Been through that already — not again.
Call it whatever you want — it's not relevant to the issue.
Whether epidemiology exists isn't relevant to points made that show the weaknesses of epidemiological theory and application.
Yes and No.
Vaccines have a proven history of injuries and deaths along with a dubious history of false and/or exaggerated claims about its safety & efficacy.
The biggest shift came in
1986 when vaccine makers were given immunity from civil lawsuits under the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), The most recent was of course during COVID when the largest wealth transfer in history took place as governments in collusion with big tech, big pharma, and the MSM launched a coordinated worldwide campaign to control the public narrative and mandate vaccines at the taxpayers expense.
Sure they are. But you'd be further ahead to do some reading on your own. I have hundreds of papers and links — but if you're actually serious, it's probably better to start with a few books that are well sourced by authors who challenge your current understanding.
This feels a bit like discussions I have with people who don't take UFOs seriously — and have never read about Project Blue Book or actually talked with a UFO experiencer.
Saying "reprehensible" isn't valid counterpoint to the data.
It's an emotional response based on the assumption that you already know all the information ( when you don't ).
That's a misleading opinion that doesn't address any specific evidence.
A lot of the research is indeed funded, controlled, and manipulated by big pharma in collusion with mainstream media and governments. The evidence of that is self-evident by way of MSM advertising, and government purchases and regulation — behind the scenes the players are inside institutions and the publishers of medical journals.
You really have no idea the scale of this because you refuse to do the digging — and I'm not going to write the whole book with references for you here. All I can tell you is that government agencies, the MSM, institutions, and regulators are all in on it — along with everyday civilians who are invested in the associated industries and/or are paid to be vaccine influencers.
Had I not been censored here from the start, this would have all come out in small easy to digest bits and piece over the last six years. Expecting you to get it all at once isn't reasonable. All I can do is relay the basics of what I've learned.
Again — I started out where you are now. If I was so personally invested in me be right, wouldn't I have a mountain of evidence proving us both right? What point would there be in me going against every fiber of my critical thinking skills just to go along with people who have been marginalized and discriminated against?
The fact is that every time I went to verify a claim like the ones you keep making — I found valid and often better counterpoint that forced me to upgrade my thinking.
All you're doing is repeating the same claims as the vaxxers over and over again without adequate consideration of the evidence to the contrary.
All you're doing is repeating the same claims as the vaxxers over and over again without adequate consideration of the evidence to the contrary, while telling people what they should and shouldn't do. None of that addresses any of the evidence or concerns I've brought up in the past.
Consequently — this discussion isn't progressing. You seem to think that I haven't already considered all the points you've made literally hundreds of times already while looking into this over the last six years — but I have. My assessment is that either you've not considered all the same evidence as I have with a critical enough eye to cause you to change perspectives, or you're in with those actively engaging in the suppression of evidence that goes against the prevailing pro-vaxxer narrative — perhaps because of some biased material interest.
Either way — like you, I have other things to do, and I'm really not interested in arguing these points over and over again with people who are dismissive, haven't honestly considered the same evidence as I have, and have little or no valid counterpoint to refute it.
So from this point forward, my only response will be to link you to a suggested reading list. Once you've finished that, and I can see that you have valid comments — not simply cut and paste criticisms from the pro-vax reviewer gallery, we can carry on the discussion.
BTW: I completely understand if you don't have the time. It took the last person I had this out with three years to finally admit that he'd been overly influenced by the mainstream narrative. Billions has been spent indoctrinating the world into believing it, and we were all born into a world where it was considered normal and "The science is settled" etc. ( when it's not ) — it never has been.