Great video! I think a lot of us recently learned how hard it actually is to debunk misinformation and convince people, as we all became amateur debunkers.

The other day a friend told me that it was “pointless to get a covid test because after the Pfizer vaccine she would test positive anyway because of the vaccine”🤦🏻‍♀️ let me tell you, I learned that I’m NOT an educator and explaining to her how vaccines work was quite the struggle bus.

Your strategies you briefly touched on in the vid (getting to the core of the misunderstanding, empathy, tidying up lose ends) was already extremely helpful on how to tackle these type of conversations better next time!

Hopefully this is not a surprise to you, but there’s been a plethora of work done by toxicologists in translating animal studies to human impacts, especially when it comes to teratogens, and especially when it comes to vaccines that are rolled out to massive numbers of people including toxicologists and people they care about. Science isn’t just about studies on Pubmed, it’s also about being able to interpret these studies (and the ones that aren’t published in peer-reviewed journals, like what’s done in drug approvals) and apply them to real situations, and respecting that the skills of the community of highly trained experts who are performing and scrutinising these analyses are superior to people without the same educational background. Ignoring this process and just pointing to abstracts of studies is indeed anti-science.