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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 4933408" data-attributes="member: 14668">You are comparing faith to science which is an apples-to-oranges comparison.I agree that we shouldn’t just blindly trust everything we read. The biggest reason for this, especially in the Google age, is something called confirmation bias. If I am already vaccine hesitant, I can get on Google or Youtube and find any number of articles that will confirm my pre-existing bias. That isn’t ”research.” VAERS is a perfect example, antivaxxers use it to confirm their own biases without even understanding what it actually is. I did not go to medical school and I’m not a doctor or an immunologist or a virologist so it would be the height of arrogance for me to assume that I can get on Google for 20 minutes and “discover” some hidden, secret truth that the established medical community had somehow overlooked. What I wound up doing…was to ask my doctor. I also asked the surgeon, the anesthesiologist and the three RN’s who live on my route what their opinion was of the vaccine. They all got the shot, and told me that I should also get the shot, wear a mask, and socially distance as much as possible. So rather than buy into conspiracy theories or assume that I knew more than they did, I took their advice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 4933408, member: 14668"] You are comparing faith to science which is an apples-to-oranges comparison. I agree that we shouldn’t just blindly trust everything we read. The biggest reason for this, especially in the Google age, is something called confirmation bias. If I am already vaccine hesitant, I can get on Google or Youtube and find any number of articles that will confirm my pre-existing bias. That isn’t ”research.” VAERS is a perfect example, antivaxxers use it to confirm their own biases without even understanding what it actually is. I did not go to medical school and I’m not a doctor or an immunologist or a virologist so it would be the height of arrogance for me to assume that I can get on Google for 20 minutes and “discover” some hidden, secret truth that the established medical community had somehow overlooked. What I wound up doing…was to ask my doctor. I also asked the surgeon, the anesthesiologist and the three RN’s who live on my route what their opinion was of the vaccine. They all got the shot, and told me that I should also get the shot, wear a mask, and socially distance as much as possible. So rather than buy into conspiracy theories or assume that I knew more than they did, I took their advice. [/QUOTE]

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