You might unintentionally be proving the point of the person you're responding to: that mRNA vaccine you mention has been filled with examples of the problems w

You might unintentionally be proving the point of the person you're responding to: that mRNA vaccine you mention has been filled with examples of the problems with modern academic science. One of the main developers of mRNA vaccines was demoted at Penn because she tried and failed to get grant funding for how to develop them, and was told to stop working on it because "it wouldn't work" and wasn't bringing in money to the university. There were other stories by others involved in developing SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines that their papers on the topic were repeatedly rejected from journals before the pandemic. It would be a mistake to attribute mRNA vaccines to any one person or even small group of persons but it's not clear to me that it's a good example of how the standard academic system is working.