True, that is a danger. Not having a vested interest is likely to cause you not to form any conclusions at all, or go looking for any to start with.
I only accept peer reviewed and willing to give the full set of data rather than just the conclussions as reputable, don't care where it comes from I want to see how open they are with the data. the fact that you're jumping to conclussions tells me everything I know about your willingness to analyze the data on its own merits.
And you've done this? Why would you? You have no interest in the subject, one way or the other.
Data doesn't have merits. Data relating to other data has merits. I've seen nothing from the "reputable" studies on either side that leads me to a conclusion. On the other hand, I've seen plenty of anecdotal evidence that points to a problem with vaccines that needs to be looked at.
The "earth is flat, dammit" society that you seem to be a member of refuses to partake in any study that isn't designed to clear itself.
No reputable study has found anything wrong with the vaccines, there's nothing to fix.
Well, there you go. Sleep soundly tonight then.
I'm interested in all kinds of subjects, all part of that heinleinian "specialization is for insects" mentality I have. It's part of what makes FR great, any subject that even mildly interests you will come up in the threads every couple of months.
Data does have merits, if nothing else it allows you to review how they got to their conclusions. Of course part of the problem is that you can't prove a negative so it's not actually possible to prove vaccines definitely don't cause autism, but so far none of the studies that are more than anecdotal conclusions hunting for data have been able to show any possible link. The plural of anecdote is not fact.
Got it the wrong way around, I refuse to believe any study that is designed to cherry pick data in an attempt to back up a predetermined conclusion. That's why I only pay attention to studies that give their background data, that allows me to reveiw what they used to draw their conclusions.
I sleep very soundly, and will sleep more soundly when the crowd trying to banish vaccines is finally kicked back to the 19th century where they belong so they'll no longer be trying to destroy our herd immunity and render us defenseless against diseases we should be able to consider conquered.