I would consider discussing statistics from a study to be pretty relevant for this site, especially since you can just ignore or collapse a thread if you don’t want to participate.
I’m not even saying I’m suspicious of anything related to vaccine efficacy. I’m saying that it doesn’t look good to shut down people completely like that and that it would be better for society if we tried to correct misinfo instead of censoring people.
Again: the goals you're referring to here aren't those of Hacker News. There's a whole wide Internet to prosecute these kinds of arguments on; I hear Twitter is newly receptive to them. Here, our concerns about how most compellingly to correct misinformation must give way to the prime directive, which is curious conversation.
I’m not even saying I’m suspicious of anything related to vaccine efficacy. I’m saying that it doesn’t look good to shut down people completely like that and that it would be better for society if we tried to correct misinfo instead of censoring people.