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The room for their opinion is in peer reviewed medical journals. Short of conducting their own study, they could, for example, write a dissenting letter to the

The room for their opinion is in peer reviewed medical journals. Short of conducting their own study, they could, for example, write a dissenting letter to the editor, or submit what's known as a "brief report." Posting to Youtube for clicks and views is to not take seriously their own knowledge. Covid-19 is a very serious issue; on the chance that your two senior scientists have information that the world needs, the appropriate venue is in the medium scientists and doctors use to communicate with each other. Also, what does it mean to be "skeptical" of "the" vaccine? There are several vaccines. Were they skeptical of mRNA? Viral vector vaccines? All of them? Do they think that the covid-19 vaccines secretly don't work?

AHappyCamper 5y ago
They both said they feel immense pressure not to speak out against the vaccine or publish anything against it. So the regular channels of dissent have been removed.
- asdff 5y ago
  If they had significant data a journal would pick them up. There is no one silencing them but themselves, because they know they don't have good evidence and their sources also don't have good evidence. The lancet, one of the most prestigious journals in the world, took up an article that vaccines might be related to autism, because at the time the authors had significant data (that later turned out to be fraudulent but at this point pandoras box had already been opened, and now decades later people believe vaccines cause autism). So if they did have this smoking gun data that said the vaccines are something to be worried about, it would have been published by now in a huge journal.
  - YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
    Great points. In particular, that one original source of anti-vax anxiety comes from a study published in a top medical journal. If one thinks that the medical establishment is corrupt or self-censoring, or should not be trusted, etc., then does that also not apply to articles published in The Lancet?

AHappyCamper 5y ago

They both said they feel immense pressure not to speak out against the vaccine or publish anything against it. So the regular channels of dissent have been removed.

asdff 5y ago
If they had significant data a journal would pick them up. There is no one silencing them but themselves, because they know they don't have good evidence and their sources also don't have good evidence. The lancet, one of the most prestigious journals in the world, took up an article that vaccines might be related to autism, because at the time the authors had significant data (that later turned out to be fraudulent but at this point pandoras box had already been opened, and now decades later people believe vaccines cause autism). So if they did have this smoking gun data that said the vaccines are something to be worried about, it would have been published by now in a huge journal.
- YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
  Great points. In particular, that one original source of anti-vax anxiety comes from a study published in a top medical journal. If one thinks that the medical establishment is corrupt or self-censoring, or should not be trusted, etc., then does that also not apply to articles published in The Lancet?