re: The Covid 19 vax helps to cure cancer according to peer reviewed study

Our profession made a lot of mistakes, but geez, adopt reasonable critiques. This is like being mad at NASA and becoming a flat earther.

I don't think you get it.

It won't convince them. People there using identity-protective cognition won't be convinced either.

Good science communication is to persuadables, like open-minded people here who don't have a dog in the fight.

But even that doesn't matter nearly as much as the worlds of actual research and practice. You have to actually convince the legions of people actually doing the science around the world. These people aren't trying to do that.

They're trying to clout-chase off angry laypeople like you.

It's a massive problem for scientific legitimacy, but surmountable.

We should start with teaching kids (and adults) how to evaluate the quality of medical research. You can't be an expert in all the fields, so you need some general evaluation skills and science literacy is poor af.

Dude, you don't know anything about any of them except what they're saying goes directly against your faith in pseudoscientific nonsense. How would you, you're dismissing everything out of hand without even looking.
A former VP for Pfizer agrees with them now. Why, because he looked, for 2 years. And he's honest, willing to stake his reputation on it. He had plenty to lose.