Crazy thing is, the guy who started the entire vaccine autism thing admitted under oath that he faked the data in the study and the study has been retracted.
Fake data and we still changed the vaccines and people still believe it is an issue.
There is nothing that will change their minds. Unfalsifiable belief.
If you simply say that every fact you dislike is part of a coverup of your preferred narrative you completely detach your thinking from objective reality.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that. I just assumed more research had been done since to connect them.
Studies that find nothing don't get published.
100 fair studies will have 5 that show a positive result where none exists because of the statistical threshold for publishing.
Publish or perish means that researchers are motivated to find a result.
This leads to a lot of bunk getting published in peer reviewed journals. The Reproducibility Crisis is a major problem that gets almost no mainstream press. We may be better than pre scientific method but we are far from perfect in our methods.
Makes sense when it comes to the less hard sciences.
I recall the autism one being particularly bad, to the point of obvious deception, but haven't looked into it in a long time.
