Did guns or vaccines save more lives in 2021?

[Mister Agenda]

Empiricism doesn't mean the embrace of bad studies and dubious conclusions from bad studies. That's the opposite of Empiricism.

The opposite of empiricism is, as far as I know, rationalism. Rationalism is disregard for the empirical evidence and trusting your intuition over empirical evidence, which seems to me that you guys here are doing.

A rational empiricist uses reason to evaluate whether evidence is valid or sufficient, combining the strengths of both approaches.