Agnosticism

[Ignatius A]

Vaccines do reduce the incidence of infection. Now some work better than others. For example, two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% effective against measles but only 88% effective against mumps.

Right but then three shots polio vaccine is 99.9% effective at preventing the disease.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Right and a vaccine no longer needs to prevent a disease in order to be called a vaccine because the actual definition was inconvenient. BTW I have no need of your "benefit of the doubt" no matter how serious it is.

Good thing you don't care about me taking you seriously, because trying to threadjack a thread about agnosticism with an unprompted, unhinged anti-vax rant is pretty much the opposite of what you would need to do for that.

 

[Ignatius A]

Good thing you don't care about me taking you seriously, because trying to threadjack a thread about agnosticism with an unprompted, unhinged anti-vax rant is pretty much the opposite of what you would need to do for that.

Point is you can define things how you like but that don't make it so.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Point is you can define things how you like but that don't make it so.

This is advice you should consider taking yourself.

 

[Ignatius A]

This is advice you should consider taking yourself.

I have no reason to change the definition of any word but you sure do.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Right but then three shots polio vaccine is 99.9% effective at preventing the disease.

Sure. The polio vaccine is one of the most efficient vaccines we have. I'm just pointing out that other vaccines have a much lower efficiency, and that this fact doesn't mean they don't reduce infections. For example, data released Feb 1, 2024 shows that the most recent Covid booster has only a 54% efficacy rate. Despite that very low rate, it STILL prevents some infections, and is indeed a vaccine.