This review makes me curious to pick this up and leaf through to see if the questionable research jumps off the page at me, too.
I'd be happy to prove to you that vaccines cause autism! Using actual peer-reviewed studies!
The autism-vaccination link hasn't just been questioned, it's been disproven with a bonus side of the UK PI getting nailed for ethics violations and banned from practicing medicine in the UK. Yet the anti-vaccination movement troops on! It's amazing how sturdy peer-reviewed papers look from the outside, and how fragile after other labs and Retraction Watch start poking at the methods section.
...I think I might swear off pop-science books totally. They just make me cranky.
There's evidently a "trained in other disciplines" lay audience. It's a bummer most pop sci reading is such a quality roulette.
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Date: 2012-01-10 07:22 am (UTC)I'd be happy to prove to you that vaccines cause autism! Using actual peer-reviewed studies!
The autism-vaccination link hasn't just been questioned, it's been disproven with a bonus side of the UK PI getting nailed for ethics violations and banned from practicing medicine in the UK. Yet the anti-vaccination movement troops on! It's amazing how sturdy peer-reviewed papers look from the outside, and how fragile after other labs and Retraction Watch start poking at the methods section.
...I think I might swear off pop-science books totally. They just make me cranky.
There's evidently a "trained in other disciplines" lay audience. It's a bummer most pop sci reading is such a quality roulette.