This is just what goes on in medicine science when things are operating properly. Test, collect data, run experiments, do it again, do it again, then, after the short term use has been proven safe 30 different times, by 100’s of research groups, you start researching the long term affects of it.
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MinusPi@yiffit.net 1 year ago
What’s even the point? More evidence isn’t going to change anyone’s mind.
Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ours@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’d be surprised. My sibling wasn’t anti-vax but was surrounded by, let’s say less scientifically-inclined people (artists) and didn’t get vaccinated.
Talking over the phone I got my sibling to actually research the topic (actual publications, not social media “do my your own research”) and finally decided to vaccinate.
Some people are probably mostly lost down the social media conspiracy/politics rabbit hole but some aren’t beyond looking at overwhelming evidence and making a reasonable decision based on it.
Wrench@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s how the scientific community works. Test and retest the theory. Unexciting results are still valuable to lend more credence to the established scientific understanding.
Also, more practically, recent studies are good ammo for disputes with nutter friends and family who still form their entire distrust on an article based on an intentionally bad take on a studys results from early on in the pandemic.
toasteecup@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hope that works for you, I’ve personally given up on them. They are welcome to make their decisions and we avoid the topic since we don’t agree.
Wrench@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, I have lost causes for sure. I do have a couple more reasonable conservative friends that took a dose or two and stopped, so this is the kind of thing that might not fall on deaf ears
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As long as there’s any evidence supporting their argument, confirmation bias will make it impossible to change anyone’s mind.