>>13207874I actually watched the whole thing. For the most part, in a vacuum, it's fairly reasonable. I mean, it's basically all shit that most people already knew - Wakefield's study was garbage, and basically the entire scheme of made-up "science" was just a way to peddle his own vaccine. He appeared multiple times in interviews (back then, at least) to stress that he was not antivax, but rather that people should consider alternatives. What alternatives was he suggesting, I wonder...
The problem is that this video clearly comes out during a time where people who are NOT part of the antivax movement are questioning the safety of an EUA, experimental vaccine. Regardless of how you feel about these concerns, it is not at all comparable to the conspiracies of antivaxxers. And yet hbomber is trying to conflate the two issues, as is clearly evident at the end of the video. It's trying to make the viewer go
>oh hey look at all this irrefutable evidence that Wakefield was full of shit and a conman... wait a minute, if I think that but also haven't got the covid vax, does that make me as insane as these people?which is at least dishonest. His premise about getting the covid vax, if you managed to sit through the prior 90 minutes, is essentially that since the antivax movement is founded on bullshit, it's safe to trust the covid vax's unconditionally. Of course, he doesn't mention any of those vaccine's science, the data, the papers, etc. in the same way that he scrutinized Wakefield's work -- not least of which is because all the data isn't even publically available yet. It's a pretty egregious logical fallacy IMO, and I kinda feel bad for the people on the fence who have been manipulated by this type of video/argument.
But oh well. The vaccine is probably safe for most people, and yet I'm still not going to take it. So I'm probably engaging in some sort of logical fallacy too.
