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.
Yes. I am confident in saying that yes, it would. Well, a caveat: the questionable research itself isn't to my eye questionable unless you actually know something about the field (which I didn't, and really still don't), but the illogic jumps are... sort of phenomenal, and you would pick up on that right away. It might be worth just picking up and leafing through, were you in a library/bookstore and wanted to be amused in a horrified sort of way.
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.
Ahahahaha. Oh yes. You'd think with the complete and total retraction of That Paper that it had been disproven to the masses, wouldn't you? Oh, if only. When E. was a month old (this was not too long after all the news about what's-his-name being busted with the ethics violations, actually) we had an appointment with her pediatrician "to talk about vaccinations." We thought E would, you know, actually get a vaccination, but it turned out that it was the doctor earnestly telling us about how Vaccinations Are Good, You Know! We assured her that yes, we were scientists by training, we did believe this, and we'd been following the news and we knew That Paper had been retracted and there was really no reason to believe Vaccinations Were Bad. The really sad thing was how floored she was by this; she was clearly expecting and armed for a heated argument (she even handed us these Helpful Pamphlets) and... and wait, you AGREE with me?!
But I wouldn't even have to resort to That Paper. For example, there are actually some interesting immunological mouse studies that show that there may be some connection between stimulation of the maternal immune system and autism. (It's a total far cry from there to "vaccination = autism," but it's exactly that kind of poor logic jump that these authors make constantly.)
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Date: 2012-01-11 03:18 am (UTC)Yes. I am confident in saying that yes, it would. Well, a caveat: the questionable research itself isn't to my eye questionable unless you actually know something about the field (which I didn't, and really still don't), but the illogic jumps are... sort of phenomenal, and you would pick up on that right away. It might be worth just picking up and leafing through, were you in a library/bookstore and wanted to be amused in a horrified sort of way.
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.
Ahahahaha. Oh yes. You'd think with the complete and total retraction of That Paper that it had been disproven to the masses, wouldn't you? Oh, if only. When E. was a month old (this was not too long after all the news about what's-his-name being busted with the ethics violations, actually) we had an appointment with her pediatrician "to talk about vaccinations." We thought E would, you know, actually get a vaccination, but it turned out that it was the doctor earnestly telling us about how Vaccinations Are Good, You Know! We assured her that yes, we were scientists by training, we did believe this, and we'd been following the news and we knew That Paper had been retracted and there was really no reason to believe Vaccinations Were Bad. The really sad thing was how floored she was by this; she was clearly expecting and armed for a heated argument (she even handed us these Helpful Pamphlets) and... and wait, you AGREE with me?!
But I wouldn't even have to resort to That Paper. For example, there are actually some interesting immunological mouse studies that show that there may be some connection between stimulation of the maternal immune system and autism. (It's a total far cry from there to "vaccination = autism," but it's exactly that kind of poor logic jump that these authors make constantly.)