Sure, but keep in mind scientists can be competitive as well. So will often try to recreate or prove wrong etc.
Basically, right now it sounds like you are saying no one can know anything so believe whatever you want. Which, like there are often competing ideas, but it feels like people are just shopping for the one that fills their worldview and running with it, rather than looking at the preponderance of the evidence and picking the one most likely based on the evidence. If on one side of the argument are multiple, competing peer reviewed studies over years of searching, and the other side has associations and doctors who have lost their practice, and initial findings that don’t hold up under further scrutiny, I don’t think you can say “well there are doctors on both sides, who knows what to believe”.
well, I have posted already, that right now, I don't know who to believe. I used to be a "stay within the lines" person. I had 100% faith in CDC, FDA, all the government agencies. My wife and I got the COVID shot on the first day available because I felt that the government would let us take something that was dangerous. We both happily signed the form accepting sole responsibility, followed the 6 foot guidelines, wore out masks etc. I believed Biden when he said "get the vaccine and the virus stops there".
So now, we know that a lot of that was not only false, but the people telling us - the ones we trusted - knew it wasn't true. Move on now to the Tylenol debate . Two opinions, bad for pregnant women: good for pregnant women.....who do you believe? On the one side we have the old establishment - the ones front and center on the COVID vaccine - telling us one thing and the "upstart" new guys telling us something different. who do you believe?
I'm definitely not saying no one can know anything, but I will say that you have to make your own decisions, based on whatever information you can access. If your wife is pregnant, knowing what you know now about our system, do you let her take tylenol? Right now, I don't know if I would. You might feel differently. That's what makes the world go around.... different people see things differently. Doesn't mean I'm right, doesn't mean I'm wrong.
I do think, however, that as long as it's Trump saying one thing, there is a group that will not accept it no matter what. And, that's ok. But it doesn't mean Trump is wrong. Doesn't mean he's right either.
I'm on medicare and it's great. Some day I'll give you my opinion on how the system leads you where it wants you to go rather than maybe where you should go. If ever there was a point where you have to take charge of your own health, make your own decisions, it's when you retire.