I feel like a lot of people on HN don't want to promote "vaccine denialism," but the reality is that you cannot put all vaccines, nor can you put all drugs, in

I feel like a lot of people on HN don't want to promote "vaccine denialism," but the reality is that you cannot put all vaccines, nor can you put all drugs, in the same category. Many vaccines have done a lot of good. Many of the people who question some of the more recent vaccines are not against the standard MMR. I don't think it's wrong to question newer pharmaceutical products, including drugs, devices and vaccines. Remember Vioxx? Clinical trials have a lot of safeguards, but we've seen how business interests can side step these. A lot of money goes into studying new compounds. If during the animal trials, if a single monkey dies, your entire compound is often scraped and has to go back quite a but. At the human side of testing, potential issues can mean a lot of money being scrapped. It's a bigger problem with how we develop drugs, and it's also a bigger problem with how we see science, especially the mixture of science and funding. James Corbet has a great video about the "Weaponization of Science" which is worth considering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecefLsE44U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecefLsE44U