by islander on September 14, 2021 6:34 am
Vaccine hesitancy that is based on a fear that we cannot trust what medical science tells us because medical science, like all other branches of science is constantly advancing in its knowledge and understanding. Such reasoning does not lend itself as being a particularly wise argument for avoiding the vaccine. This fear of science is usually strongest among those whose knowledge and understanding, in this instance, of immunology, disease control, etc. and their understanding of how a vaccine actually works is limited. Thus for them it is really a fear of the unknown. That doesn’t mean that their unknown in this case is actually unknown. The best thing such people can do is to increase their knowledge, it’s all there for the asking. As a virus evolves our response to it evolves right along with it. This is a good thing of course and it's how science works, but it’s also part of what those with limited understanding of this process mean when try to use this to justify their distrust of science by claiming science changes.
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Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health. 
