Comments on: Throwing mud

By: autblog

autblog — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:15:23 +0000

Yes Bull Moose, that’s exactly what I meant. A=one. Thanks for the correction.

By: lions and tigers

lions and tigers — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:20:06 +0000

Many good points. But the comment about the Standard deviation makes no sense. Which of the six SD’s displayed is being referred to? Does the author mean to say “A standard deviation?” instead of “THE standard devaition”? If so, this still does not make sense. Sigh. Perhaps the author means 16% are above one SD and 16% are below? This would be essentially true.
Linda W. did make some mistakes, she seems to have read them on line in another site. I wonder if anyone will misundestand SD’s based on this website…. if so, there whole aregument would be thrown out.
Why make up stuff when it is so easy to check (try wikipedia for SD’s and stop throwing bricks in when you live in glass house.

By: isles

isles — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:16:17 +0000

Echoing Ms. Clark – thanks, Joe, I never knew that about the infant mortality statistics. Very interesting!

By: Ms. Clark

Ms. Clark — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:50:42 +0000

Thanks, Autism News Beat. Linda W. has a real problem with facts, doesn’t she?

And thanks Club 166 for that explanation. I bet Linda “Why verify facts when it’s so easy to make stuff up” Weinmaster would say that pointing out the problem with infant mortality as compared to other countries all part of the conspiracy.

By: Club 166

Club 166 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:17:54 +0000

...Yes, the US infant mortality rate is far too high, but there is no evidence that vaccines are to blame. ... In fact, comparing US infant mortality rates to other countries is fraught with more hazard than trying to estimate prevalence of autism from California DDS statistics. The biggest reason that you can't compare US infant mortality to other countries is that different countries count "live birth" in a different manner. As this article details, most European countries put restrictions (in terms of how much the baby needs to weigh or how long it is) before it can be counted as a live birth. Other countries may not count a baby as being born until it survives for 1-7 days. This significantly skews the statistics for infant mortality (as well as longevity). Joe

By: isles

isles — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:37:10 +0000

Boy, if the anti-vaccine nuts want to be taken seriously, they ought to stop lying so darn much.

There are no words strong enough for people who, with no expertise to back them up, go around screaming that parents shouldn’t vaccinate their kids. They don’t even have the sense to feel ashamed when kids are hurt or die because of this kind of thinking.