Good post!
VAERS can be useful for certain things, in the right hands, by good statisticians who know how to handle the data. It really is useful as a signal of possible side effects/harmful adverse effects — to properly trained and experienced professionals. Such as the Israeli researchers you mentioned.
I wholeheartedly agree the crazy and easily-disproven stuff put out by the vax doomers has harmed the anti-mandate cause and made it easy to dismiss valid concerns about the vaccines.
“Self-strawmanning” — I love it! Well done, sir (or madam, as the case may be).
At the same time, Fauci & Friends lied to us. I can certainly understand people losing faith in them and other members of the public health and medical establishments. You have to research everything for yourself and check the sources and the math. There’s disinformation coming from both sides.
Who informed you putting stuff in tables makes it more persuasive? I can guess, but I don’t actually know.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled 6-Year-Old Canadian Kid Child Suddenly Dead After Suffering “Massive Stroke” – Doctor Diagnosed her with “Myocarditis due to the Flu”, CatHerd wrote: Who informed you putting stuff in tables makes it more persuasive? I can guess, but I don’t actually know.
To be fair, I was being facetious, of course. TBH, they seem to have appeared with any sort of regularity in the past couple of years, and were at first, puzzling. Seriously, why would anyone do that? The only reason I could think of is that it somehow made the poster's point with greater emphasis, or something. At least the late tred of putting all sorts of text in bold red font seems to have finally gone out of fashion. Something for which we can all be grateful
Something for which we can all be grateful.