“Randall Hoven should resign from the American Thinker, because he clearly wasn’t thinking when he wrote that article”
He is most likely, among those of the younger generations who have been “educated” (no matter their own political convictions), in many subjects, with teachers from whom the maxim “correlation is not causation” has been intentionally ignored, so as to promote “the severity of the charge” over the “accuracy and veracity of the evidence”.
The lack of heeding the warning of that maxim is epidemic in every area of American life, even in the “Conservative” media, even here on FreeRep.
To the AmericanThinker author just the association (correlation) of the HPV vaccine with specific entries in a database of POSSIBLE warnings, was conviction enough. I expect that type of thinking from Liberals without question; I always hope for better from Conservatives.
However, that still does NOT mean that Bachman was wrong, only that the author in the AmericanThinker did not lift up good evidence that she was right.
NO. But Bachmann reported a claim. It is up the claimant to substantiate the claim, not the skeptic to disprove it, which is essentially logically impossible.