These are people who think the earth is 6000 years old, that dinosaurs and cavemen lived at the same time, that the entire earth was flooded with water and all animals but those an a big boat died, and even that Trump really won the election. There’s little a vaccine expert can do in such an extreme cases.
I know, and I am well aware that I can do little to reach people who are so mired in conspiracy thinking that they see the entire world through a dark malicious prism.
They are not my primary target, even though I use their posts and the misinformation they post as a means of providing accurate scientific information. My goal is to reach those people who might read antivax propaganda and think it is valid. I want to present them with the facts and links to either organizations like CDC/Mayo clinic/etc. which translate highly technical science to ordinary language, or to the original medical literature. I don't want people to ONLY see the propaganda without any rebuttal from the scientific community.
Plus, doing this is educational. Debunking the propaganda has led me to finding a number of scientific articles which I probably wouldn't have found or read otherwise. I even found a diagram of the plasmid (DNA) used to make the Pfizer vaccine--something I've been very curious about, as I've made countless plasmids for other purposes.