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Message to anti-vaxxers: As you can see the government is very carefully tracking any kind of safety issues with vaccines. They are being open and telling you about issues despite people fearing it would cause vaccine hesitancy.

So this should actually give you more confidence in vaccine safety, because if there are problem, you will be informed.

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kevin_nisbet5y ago· 1 in thread

Unfortunately I think the anti-vaxxers can twist the logic however they want. The government is putting on a show about how transparent they are to win trust... etc.

I'm not sure how to get through that... from what I understand it takes alot of effort and time per person.

bluGill5y ago

Sadly, as news papers discovered years ago, publishing corrections makes you seem less trust worthy than papers that never publish any, even though the later at best equal, and often worse.

mmcdermott5y ago

I see this as making the safety of the specific vaccines an unfalsifiable proposition. If the absence of side effects proves that it's safe to vaccinate and the identification of side effects proves it's safe to vaccinate, what could ever prove that a specific vaccine is unsafe?

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