But it's not about who has the most number of studies. It's about having a sufficient number of diverse studies that can be used to have a reasoned conversation

But it's not about who has the most number of studies. It's about having a sufficient number of diverse studies that can be used to have a reasoned conversation about the topic instead of always ending spinning in circles with generic allegations linking one or two "papers" "proving" that "everybody is wrong!!". If everybody is wrong then it shouldn't be that hard to prove it. You don't need big pharma pockets. If in principle you can't find 500M people willing to invest $10 in a crowd funding campaign it means that the vaccine skeptics are actually a minority and why are we having this conversation? With 5 billion dollars you can find enough scientists to seriously research and rigorously destroy any bullshit that big pharma is selling to us! But it's not like this research output in itself would prove the anti vax point. It's not a quantity versus quantity, my word against your word mechanism. Once we have that body of well written papers, then we can have a next level discussion about it.