> If they try to research these topics, most people will just go away more confused than they started out, and probably do nothing.

more FUD

> Other than using violence to suppress one side or the other (which some people want) there doesn't seem to be any way to drive this toward honest consensus.

The first step is for people to acknowledge reality. Which the antivaxxers almost never do.

> Same for the other political issues. Humans just cannot reason about tribal identity markers.

Sure we can. And vaccines are not a tribal identity marker, unless you make it one.

generally: you're speaking as if the past 2 years haven't happened. This sort of reasoning went out the window as soon as actual hard data on what the vaccine, and covid does came out.