knows more about vaccines than all those stuffy scientists?
Posted on 02/04/2010 12:33:45 PM PST by ventanax5
The media gave big headlines to this week's stories on a prestigious British medical publication's retraction of an article that had claimed to show a causal link between standard childhood vaccinations (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism.
Yet the coverage of the Lancet affair didn't truly convey the outrageousness of the original publication or the gravity of its consequences--consequences long festering, since the paper was published not last week but 12 years ago.
Many of us in the scientific community recognized the "study" as junk when it appeared in 1998. Even before we learned of then-unknown ethical failings by its lead author, we knew the study was based on a tiny population of only 12 children. More, it relied on a novel methodology that assumed some bizarre, previously unheard of, association between children's autism and their manifestation of intestinal problems....
In other words, a medical jour nal triggered a chain of events that led to preventable disease--and some child deaths.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
knows more about vaccines than all those stuffy scientists?
Jenny may be legally blonde, but the other about vaccines doesn’t seem likely. Enjoy your fantasy.
I would've thought my sarcams would have been obvious. Also, I think she is a peroxide blonde.
comment by someone on Debbie Schlussel's blog.
Last paragraph in article:
“This incident leads to one very unsettling but unavoidable conclusion: Even a study in a top-notch, peer-reviewed medical journal may still be scientific garbage. Imagine how many other false (if less controversial) reports glide by under the radar — undetected but still destructive to good science and public health.”
All together, now......AGW!!!!
There is no such thing as peer review especially not what the public has been led to believe is peer review.
“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”
James D. Watson
Who cares about science when you can study with her? ;-)
The media gave big headlines to this week's stories on a prestigious British medical publication's retraction of an article that had claimed to show a causal link between standard childhood vaccinations (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism... the [original] paper was published not last week but 12 years ago.The point is, the focus is off the global warming hoaxters. Thanks ventanax5. Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have to make my food radioactive by finishing the preparation in a microwave oven. It won't do anything to the alzheimer-causing aluminum traces from searing it in the frying pan. And I'm talking on my brain cancer-causing cell phone, consulting with my dentist about getting all my fillings replaced.
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