When an apple falls from a tree, we accept it has fallen.

We don't say "But you can't be 100% sure it won't fall sideways next time."

Some scientific questions have been answered thoroughly enough to move on.

Newton's law of gravity is one of them.

Vaccines not being a cause of autism is another.

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meJess · F

lol, one is a demonstrable certainty, the other is not.

The apple will always fall, you don’t need any scientific understanding to accept that. However, injecting RNA into a mammal may have unintended consequences. It’s not a vaccine by the way, it doesn’t provide immunity, more of a booster shot.

I support vaccines but your analogy needs work. Maybe compare traditional booster type medications like tetanus and the risk versus the consequences.

G7J2O · 36-40, M

@meJess As I've already said, both conclusions (gravity exists and vaccines do not cause autism, I've said nothing about potential general side effects, which can of course happen) come from scientific experiments, data, and peer review.

And as I've also said, When we demand impossible standards of proof for well-established science, we're not being cautious - we're being unreasonable. And that unreasonableness is almost always because of a person's particular political ideology.

meJess · F

@G7J2O so you contradict yourself and your main post in the first paragraph.😁

By the way, not everything is political, only a fanatic holds that viewpoint.

G7J2O · 36-40, M

@meJess Excuse, me, what? lol how have I contradicted myself? You don't really seem to understand English.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@meJess Vaccines do not inject RNA into a mammal. They use it as a vector. Even injecting RNA will do nothing... it is biologically impossible for a vaccine to change your DNA.

No vaccine provides immunity - that's not how vaccines work.

Vaccines train your immune system to more easily identify and overcome specific pathogens.

meJess · F

@newjaninev2 check the basis for Covid injections again, they are RNA based.

Nobody mentioned DNA why bring it up?

Vaccines provide immunity exactly as you describe, except covid shots don’t they only boost resistance.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@meJess these vaccines use mRNA (messengerRNA) for protein synthesis.
What 'unintended consequences' could that bring about?

meJess · F

@newjaninev2 the term unintended suggests that we do not know