Unrelated, but the replication crisis in medicine is the primary reason why anti-vaxxers have a right to be skeptical, even if they're wrong and spout nonsense.

Unrelated, but the replication crisis in medicine is the primary reason why anti-vaxxers have a right to be skeptical, even if they're wrong and spout nonsense. Now we *know* that a large percentage of cited medical research is fraught with uncertainty and is potentially non-replicable. Therefore, people have a right to be skeptical of "the science" even if they don't have a coherent counterargument. It is extremely reasonable to be suspicious of statistical methodologies in vaccine safety studies and adverse reaction reporting; there are statistical errors and even outright fraud all over the scientific landscape, so why not here? And given the extremely perverse financial and political incentives found in this particular pandemic environment, I would be extremely surprised if there was NO foul play happening, because you would have to be a hero to ignore these incentives.