It took me awhile to realize that the vaccine fearful didn’t have slightest idea that mRNA is a routine part of cell biology and that it goes on all of their life.
The conspiracy grifters figured out right away that no one knew what mRNA is and they have been exploiting that lack of knowledge ever since.
You both hit the nail on the head.
Guys like Kirsch need to be read warily. He can easily fool people and often does.
The same with kooks who claim SARS-CoV-2 has not been “isolated”, or people of any stripe who see green colors at narrative pushing sites like c19ivm.org and conclude Ivermectin MUST be effective without reading studies in detail. Or make wild claims that spoons stick to COVID-19 injection sites (looking at you Sherri Tenpenny, you pathetic quack).
This does not mean that there are not problems with COVID-19 vaccinations. But some of the things that occurred such as vaccinations of children, mandatory vaccinations, etc were policy decisions made in part due to normative science having a foothold in public health, and also policy makers that have few consequences for poor decision making or policy advocacy (looking at you Anthony Fauci).