The More Vaccines An Infant Receives In Its First Year, The Higher The Mortality Rate

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

[Science Mom has questions]:
This is known as starting with a reasonable observation and then switching to a hypothesis with little or no scientific justification, in essence pulling it out of thin air. The second question I would have is: Why a linear relationship? No justification is given for performing a linear regression analysis.

Why linear?
Well, probably because the authors weren't investigating the relationship of global warming to pirates.

And justification?
The authors discuss this in the paper. Sounds like Science Mom didn't read the whole study.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

First two peer reviews I could find are partially, but nowhere near completely quoted above. For those of you that might actually care about science, they're here and here.

One of your scientific "peer reviews" is a blog from people calling themselves "Catherina and Science Mom." The other is a doctor who quotes Catherina and also uses "Wikipedia" as one of his sources.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

But I give credit for finally finding something that was in a peer reviewed journal. The next step is aknowledging that's just the first step in getting a theory accepted in the scientific community.

Yes, most studies are often a start. If your sources think that this study is too "simple," then perhaps they would like to run different and multivariate analyses. The study authors discussed limitations and confounding variables, so I would certainly welcome replication of the study to include items such as ecological bias.

I won't count on this from Science Mom, however, since half of her Facebook type page seems to be more interested in commenting about all the conspiracy theory demons around her.

 

[ThePenguinLibertarian]

If mercury was the cause of Autism? why isn't autism going down? the answer is that we've radically redefined Autism and made is into a spectrum. Which is bullshit.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

If mercury was the cause of Autism? why isn't autism going down? the answer is that we've radically redefined Autism and made is into a spectrum. Which is bull$#@!.

Yeah, I've had a lot of completely normal acquantinces reveal to me they're technically autistic. Whatever, buddy. I guess you can use that as an excuse to claim disability and withdraw your 401k early.