But a larger community also means people like that conspiracy poster coming here and degrading the quality of the conversation. It's a double edged sword. I think we should encourage quality user growth over just quantity. Of course, that's easier said than done. But my point is that growth in and of itself is a poor measure of success: we want growth of competent users.

Most likely both

Yeah, this. They don’t want to know facts. They are actively resisting reality. Doesn’t matter that ~40 people had adverse effects to the vaccine and most likely recovered just fine while hundreds of thousands got sick and died from the disease.

This is a hobby with flat Earthers, MAGA, and antivaxxers. They make weird shit up and then pretend to believe it. Numerology. Conspiracy theories. They dont think there is any harm in it and like to troll "the libs" and debate them to waste everyone's time. The bad thing is that you get a portion of them that start truly believing these tales ... we have a few dozen holding US offices now.

Yeah, we should invent new words for this, they aren't stupid, they weaponise stupidity for their own gains.

You know the paradox of tolerance? The idea that if you believe in tolerance, then you have to be intolerant of intolerance.

I think this general concept is applicable in many areas. Like, it makes sense to be nonviolent except in preventing more violence.

And in this case, we should all make a giant conspiracy to destroy the places where conspiracy theorists talk to each other.

Lol

Funny, but probably not very fitting to this case, as luckily non of the children in the study pool died:

Across all analyses, there were no COVID-19-related deaths, and fewer than seven COVID-19-related critical care admissions.

That plane should have gotten the chicken pox vaccine!

Weird that the author who responded then deleted their account.

Cheers!

wait what is reddit then?

If one person wants to find it there's no problem. It's when a whole bunch of people all think they've been given license to brigade a thread and start cyberbullying someone that things get unpleasant.

Yup. Have to farm that karma.... I pointed out a bot account yesterday and got hounded with comments like "yeah? and? and? so what so what?" followed by a ton of downvotes on my other comments

Their cases were studied, not the children themselves.

Covid has been linked with all kinds of immune, inflammation and skin issues. Recently there have been investigations into a possible correlation of people with AD and increased risk of infection and/or symptoms. I'd say trust your instincts. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40219685/