I agree that we should question everything, and use critical thinking to try and find the truth about these kinds of issues.
But that doesn't mean we should simply accept and believe hypotheses just because there's a possibility they might be true. That's the opposite of scientific critical thinking, especially when there is overwhelming evidence that is contrary to the hypothesis.
Yes, of course it's possible that vaccines are a covert plan to sterilize and depopulate the human race, weaken their immune systems so they rely on drugs made by Big Pharma, or change their brain chemistry to make them more susceptible to government mind control.
But until we get some good evidence that any of this is true, it makes no sense to believe it. Especially when the evidence that vaccines have saved millions of people's lives and are relatively safe is overwhelming.
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
To 'believe a hypothesis' is a nonsense phrase. At least as I define things. By my definition a hypothesis cannot be believed. It sits among other complementary or mutually exclusive hypotheses to be analysed against incoming information or new formulations of information. Of course it can easily be rejected for a variety of reasons, but NOT simply because it is out of fashion in some way.
It is also the case that one can expect 'good evidence' to surface only when there is a mechanism by which that can occur. If there are mechanisms by which evidence is limited in quality then it makes no sense to reject a hypothesis by virtue of lack of evidence. In my analysis of the vaccination issue I see many many efforts to support one hypothesis and discount a competing one in very dishonest ways.
There are strong hypotheses and weak ones. A good example of a weak one is what I tossed out about metallic components in brain tissue being deliberately installed to make some possible electromagnetic impacts more functional. I classify it as 'my own' because as far as I remember I came up with it on my own and in a response to the question of why there might be a desire by some to get aluminum (and a bit of Hg) containing vaccines injected into a baby on the first day of life. Even more, why do so when it seems that the vaccine itself has at best an ambiguous benefit.
My chief argument against the hypothesis that electromagnetic means are sometimes used to manipulate human development and behavior is that such programs could be leaked by insiders and/or detected by outsiders. With the advent of sensitive and flexible analytical tools available to the masses, it's hard to imagine that someone somewhere would not be interested enough to study and detect such programs. I've not seen it, but then I've not looked that hard either.
Going back to your suggestion that MKULTRA did exist 'but none of that shit really worked' I would say that this is simply unknown. If the official story is to be believed, most of the records were destroyed. It is an interesting subject generally for a variety of reasons, and it did seem to be a fairly long running and well funded program which in and of itself calls into question the assertion that none of it worked. Where I go from here is to pay attention to some continuing similar research (e.g., being able to pull a graphical image of a face out of a person's thought patterns), and analyze the lives of some of the people who were known to have participated in some of the MKULTRA experiments such as Ken Kesey and Ted Kaczynski (aka, the unibomber.)
I agree that to "believe" a hypothesis is a nonsense phrase, but in your previous posts you seem to say that you do in fact believe hypotheses (bolded by me):
Going by your logic, the human race should have been extinct long back. Vaccination was first invented in 1796. And now, the vaccination coverage is close to 99% of the world population. If your post was true, then 99% of the world population should have been infertile by now. But as per the latest stats, the human population in the world is increasing by some 10 million individuals per annum.
You need to take a little time to understand the basics of what a guy says before casting aspersion on his/her 'logic'. Otherwise it's a strawman. Obviously nobody is saying that all vaccinations have any particular effect.
What a lot of us are saying is that we may not be getting a complete and honest story about some of the things that some of the injection regimes are designed to achieve. Here's another article with the same basic concerns.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-the-un-using-vaccines-to-secretly-sterilize-women-all-over-the-globe/5413599I have zero difficulty believing that such programs exist, and only slightly less believing that the development effort would not have been undertaken without and intent to deploy it. Only slightly less than that in believing that attempts at deployment have been undertaken from time to time here and there.
While a lot of people who, years later, ended up on bitcointalk.org were reading Ayn Rand I was reading Garrett Hardin's 'Lifeboat Ethics'. I do have a better than par understanding of the ethical considerations associated with population. Indeed, when nearly forced to pick from a list of about 200 'charities' to donate to 30 years ago, I choose 'Zero Population Growth.' I have an understanding of how some people consider 'scientific' means of controlling population to be more ethical than, say, war or starvation, and I don't even necessarily disagree with them in principle.
I also understand how any means of population control be it laissez-faire or engineered can be parlayed into accumulation of wealth as long as it is at least predictable.
I've come to believe that those at the seats of power can and do use any and all of the generally possible population control methods for personal enrichment even while a vast majority probably do earnestly believe that they are using their unique wisdom and capabilities for the 'betterment' of humanity (or more generally, of the planet.)
Currently we have a situation where utter hog-wash 'scientific' arguments like 'global climate change' and spiritual feelings used as bedrock cornerstones are being sold to (aka, implanted) in the public mind to justify eugenics programs.
This makes me believe that the motives are at least as much about obtaining power and control as they are 'ethical' in an abstract manner. It also contorts any operational efforts which will likely lead to a bad outcome.
Most people still rely on their generational line for security in old age. Covertly sterilizing people is 'evil' for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones is that it robs them of this potential. The globalist new-agers might justify this in a belief that they are going to '
end poverty by 2030 world-wide' but it is entirely unclear that they will be able to achieve this. OTOH, it is crystal clear to any thinking person that the only possible way to do this would be to massively de-populate the planet down to the 1/2 to 1 billion mark that their leaders love to toss around. Anyone who actually believes this 'agenda-2030' hype is either to stupid to understand what is going on (most of them), or does see the big-picture and welcomes it.
As for your "electromagnetic radiation" hypothesis, well you're right in saying that if it were true then there's a good chance that the program's details could be leaked, that's one good argument against it. Another would be that aluminium isn't very magnetic, so would seem like a poor choice of metal to have any effect on external EM radiation. The iron in a person's blood would be more susceptible to this sort of thing, no? Another argument still would be that there is no evidence of any actual method or apparatus that could perform these kind of effects, or even any process by which it could occur (in the realm of publically available scientific literature).
Yes, I agree with you that the evidence for certain hypotheses is "limited in quality/quantity", and therefore it makes sense to at least consider them. But that doesn't mean that they should be given any sort of scientific merit, just because the evidence is limited and/or hard to get.
As an example, I could formulate a hypothesis that everyone on Earth is being controlled by a being from an alternate dimension, through some sort of dark energy radiation that is undetectable by any equipment on Earth. Just because the evidence for this hypothesis is probably impossible to acquire, that doesn't give the hypothesis any scientific merit whatsoever.
As far as I can see, this totally refutes your claim "If there are mechanisms by which evidence is limited in quality then it makes no sense to reject a hypothesis by virtue of lack of evidence."