By your specious logic, cigarettes are safe too.
I don't trust Big Pharma scientists any more than tobacco scientists.
Science is not based on consensus; nor on credentials.
Nice try, troll.
EXCELLENT POINT, I smoked for 40 years and didn’t drop dead either or contract lung cancer!! SOME people would love react to the vaccine SOME will not, there have been a whole lot of athletes having an adverse effect and dying of heart attacks!!
I smell (another) govt plant.
Right. There happens to be a ton of high quality research that shows the deleterious effects of using tobacco. Our everyday observations are consistent with this scientific opinion, since most of us probably know someone who died from a tobacco related illness, even though less than 10% of the population uses tobacco. My own father died of a lung disease caused by smoking.
On the other hand, the only "evidence" we have that vaccines are dangerous comes from professional antivaxxers who keep telling us they are dangerous. They can produce no scientific studies to support their claims. If we are to believe some of their wildest claims, everyone who got vaccinated is supposed to die soon. (The exact timeframe keeps getting pushed back, as we keep failing to die.) The US has 332 million people, of whom 81% or 270 million or 4 of every 5 people have received one dose of vaccine.
So, if the predictions of widespread death due to vaccine were based on the results of actual scientific studies, I would expect to see people dropping dead all the time by now. It's been over two years since the vaccines were rolled out, but where are all the dead people? Why aren't the stores empty when I go shopping? Why aren't most of my friends and family dead? Why aren't I dead?
You see, when scientists have established that something is harmful to health, there is a strong likelihood that you actually know or know of people who have died from that thing. But when a bunch of kooks make a claim that something is dangerous despite a complete lack of scientific evidence, you won't actually see or hear of anyone dying from it, because that's not happening.
Oh, I know that professional creators of antivax rhetoric love to use that word "consensus" to try to discredit scientists. However, when scientists reach a consensus, it means that they are all doing research and coming up with consistent results. For example, it rained this morning. If I were to go around asking my neighbors, they would probably tell me that the ground is now wet. If I find that 100 people in my neighborhood agree that the ground is wet, the fact that they have a consensus does NOT invalidate the fact that the ground is wet. It means that they all made the same observation.
Science is about doing research and obtaining results that are consistent with the theory and previous research in the field.
Oh, FYI. Most "Big Pharma" activity is centered around manufacturing and sales of drugs. Most early drug development takes place at research institutes, biotech companies, and universities. There is quite a complicated process involved in taking an early drug candidate and getting a pharmaceutical company to sponsor further development. So, your distrust of "Big Pharma" scientists basically means that you distrust any scientist who does research. The bottom line is that just about all research is aimed towards the development of better drugs, no matter who does the research where.