All these talks about vaccine ingredients reminded me of a student that got people to sign a petition for banning water:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501907/14-year-old-who-convinced-people-ban-dihydrogen-monoxide
Yup. The general populace in the US is woefully inadequately educated in the sciences, and are incapable of even beginning to comprehend the science behind vaccines. Them making a decision based on 'their own research', while their choice, is laughable at best. I have a cursory knowledge of the sciences, and a sprinkling of introductory college science courses at a respected institution, and still can't even begin to wrap my head around exactly what the mrna vaxx does.
I'm staying out of this discussion mostly, but I would like to (hopefully helpfully) point out to the group that "doing your research" doesn't mean starting from scratch entirely, and CAN just mean just collecting the consensus of the experts. Otherwise I'm calling bullshit on every person here that is concerned about global warming, since I highly doubt that anyone has taken their own climate measurements over the last 200 years, studied them for patterns, done complete regression analyses, plugged them into climate models that were no doubt constructed - and tested, empirically - themselves? I think not. 
There's a middle ground of understanding that I feel is necessary to be an informed populace. Don't get me wrong, we as Americans generally fail even that standard, and majestically at that, but still.
But I do put faith in the scores of climate scientists who have done so. Again, just as your clients put faith in your legal skills, or my customers put faith in the fact that they're gonna get a bomb ass meal for their money. Nobody is an expert in everything, as much as a good deal of keyboard warriors like to pretend they are. Opinions aren't fact, and it takes an informed populace to differentiate the two, and a wise and humble populace to defer to the more informed ones in the cases of ignorance.
Yet, you are having many experts saying one thing and everyone listening to one Man...Also, these experts are having trouble agreeing with stuff.
The point is even though you may trust them, doesn't mean other people do. Some people may even see that person as an enemy. Because that person may have done something horrible to that other person, while presenting you with a smile and acting kind. You would not know until they are exposed, it's what happens when people's favorite idol gets exposed as a horrible human being, just look at the headlines and shock.
Of course, no one can know everything. Or else, why would we need each other. But we individually still are capable of learning as much as we can.
I strive for this. It's not hard to learn how things work. It just takes times, patience, and effort. It's not easy, it's a lot of work, but you can learn It. People just choose not too. And feel contempt with what they know. That's fine, but some do not and feel that knowledge is power, which it really is. Because people flock to you as being the expert, and knowing this, you can easily tell the gullible anything and they'll believe it.
Also, let's be frank: "do your research" is never written on the internet by people who spent hours reading scientific papers and publications, attending conferences and the likes. 99 times out of 100 "do your research" is slang for "watching a crappy YouTube video that confirms what I have already decided I want to be true".
Well, that's not doing your research or Thinking For Yourself. Doing research means looking up vast sources, seeing what's common and what's not, it's what I was taught when I had to do research papers in school. To look at other sources, because this was the time when Wikipedia was getting known and students were plagarizing from there. The teachers actually knew because they looked it up themselves. I remember when plagarizing was big in our school.
These days, it's like people do not know how to think critically or even know how to research and not just trust and have faith in that one youtube video.
We've seen all the people that try and make stuff from cookbooks, and YouTube videos. What this here is, experience...
You can do all the research and have all the knowledge, but do you have the experience and wisdom. That's what an expert is for because they actually should have went out and did the actual thing they're discussing.the experts have wisdom from experience. The scientist actually did the study. If you want to know yourself, you can do it yourself. But do you have access to all the things you need, without going into college or universities?
Why do you need to go these accredited schools. What about those other cultures that do not have schools.
Anyways I digress...
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