Your Feelings About Vaccines Don't Trump Another Child's Medical Reality

[NuclearDem]

49. When are people going to stop trumpeting that Thompson story as if it actually means anything?

First of all, how the hell does an autism/vaccine correlation affect members of one race that much more drastically than another?

Here, let me answer that for you: the data that showed vaccinated AA kids with autism was taken from an early intervention special ed class in Atlanta that required vaccination for acceptance. That is why the CDC saw it as irrelevant to their findings.

Second, a 3.36 fold increase (which the CDC data showed) is a 236% increase, not 336%. A twofold increase is an increase of 100%--doubling--threefold being 200%--tripling. This might seem petty, but it's symptomatic of the poor science education in this country that makes crap like that believable.

Third, the journal Hooker published his recalculation of the CDC numbers in eventually retracted it over concerns of its validity and integrity. The idiot used an entirely different method of study to reanalyze the numbers, and deliberately kept twisting the numbers to get them to say what he wanted to see.

Fourth, Andrew Wakefield. Seriously, that asshole's prints all over that story. If anything should throw up red flags immediately, it should be Andrew Wakefield's endorsement.