Sam Harris on Vaccine Harm: Denies

The claim: COVID vaccines do more harm than good, or are designed to harm.

2021-07-23: “These people are MDs with seemingly relevant credentials in caring for people with COVID and I mean, these are not MDs who've been sidelined from malpractice years ago and they should be credible sources of information here” source
2023-03-15: “it was totally rational for me to to want to get that vaccine as as soon as I could and now I think it's totally rational for me to to do a a different kind of cost benefit analysis and wonder listen do I really need to get a booster” source
2023-05-11: “Even if you accept the worst claims about the risk of the mRNA vaccines, which are almost guaranteed to be false…the case for getting vaccinated is absolutely clear-cut” source
2023-09-23: “The official figures, if they are even remotely correct, still suggest that full vaccination was the right decision.” source
2023-09-23: “But would it be rational for me to take a 10 times greater risk of hospitalization or death just because there has been a lot of chatter, mostly from non-experts, about how scary these vaccines are? I don't think so.” source