When discussing vaccinations, you quickly end up with the individual case: this side effect, that study, this expert. What’s rarely asked is the foundation: was the central assumption — vaccination protects — ever empirically established?
Before discussing side effects, efficacy rates, or mandates — a foundational question must be asked:
Was the central assumption that vaccination protects ever empirically established?
This isn’t a question from fringe corners of the internet. It’s a methodological question raised by physicians and researchers in peer-reviewed literature — people who have been vaccinating for decades.