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When people say "believe the science", I think about issues like this, where you can pretty much pick the study that supports your position and call the matter

• gus_massa 3y ago
  In god we trust all others must bring data. Double blind randomized controlled trial or it didn't happen. Can I add preregistered? And big? And published in a serious peer review journal? And check it was made in human. And check the exclusion list near the bottom of the paper. (I still remember the hidroxicloroquine paper where they get a better results in the treatment group after excluding the dead guy and other 5 bad cases. The control group has no exclusions (nor death), and was not even a real control group, juts an unrelated bunch of guys in another city.) Anyway, for comparison, the claims that the vaccines are useful and safe come form people that was forced to dot all the i's and cross all the t's, and make a preregistered double blind randomized controlled trial in humans published in a serious peer review journal and with a lot of additional checking and paperwork to ensure it's reliable. Once you start removing each of the check in that list, the confidence in the result start to diminish.