Submitted by Hot----------Dog t3_xur1gi in todayilearned
Reply to comment by lego_office_worker in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
Something like: “People we’re once ridiculed for saying the Covid vaccine wasn’t as effective as we were initially led to believe.”
Yeah that vocal minority of people are just politely saying it's not as effective as we initially thought and not that it doesn't work at all and is giving people autism
Don't forget how it's going to sterilize and/or kill us to fulfill the Jews' Globalist Elite's plan to depopulate the Earth.
Never said that
If you’re anything like 99% of antivaxxers, you used to but moved the goalposts once people didn’t start dropping dead in the street.
That’s what I was saying. Never said it gave you autism
I didn't say you said it either?
>wasn’t as effective as we were initially led to believe.
What were we "initially led to believe"?
I was initially led to believe that the vaccine was highly effective at preventing serious cases and that the virus was highly mutable. So far everything checks out.
That it “prevented transmission” which was untrue but considered “misinformation” to say otherwise
It did prevent transmission until delta got here
No. It. Did. Not.
Yes. It. Did.
You think that if it's not 100% effective, it's not working.
But that's not how science works, and especially not how health science works, and it's not ever what the science said.
If you stopped to actually read actual scientific studies from scientists that study this stuff, instead of memes based off of press releases from politicians, you would know what the veracity was, and how it worked for each of the vaccines (there were easy to read tables and everything). And when delta came out, they updated the tables, and surprise, it worked, just not as well, and the scientific releases reflected the changes, and the likely explanation with the information they had at the time (which turned out to be relitively accurate for the fly by the seat of your pants fast pace this stuff was going down).
This whole thing really highlighted the lack of health science literacy in the world, and the difficulty in fixing that issue.
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> What were we "initially led to believe"?
95% reduction in infection.
> I was initially led to believe that the vaccine was highly effective at preventing serious cases and that the virus was highly mutable
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
No we will still ridicule you
Haha, every downvote you get demonstrates the mechanism at work.
Yes, scientists in the past were wrong and that’s very important to remember but not important enough that you are allowed to question scientists who have produced a conclusion I support!
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