OPINION:
As someone who has had three COVID-19-vaccine injections, as well as his annual influenza shot, I basically believe the science behind the stated safety and benefit of vaccines. Still, I feel the term “science” generally gets used a bit too readily and frequently, especially for political purposes. Also, I’m generally cautious of blindly buying into what I call “speculative science.”
As disturbing as it sounds, due to increasingly common privatized research for corporate profit aims, even science, and perhaps by extension scientific “fact,” has become commercialized. Research results, however flawed, can and are known to be publicly amplified if they favor the corporate product, and accurate research results can be suppressed or ignored if they are unfavorable to business interests — even when they involve human health.
FRANK STERLE JR.
White Rock, British Columbia
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