Violent Metaphors

“Humans try to make sense of the world by seeing patterns. When they see a disease or condition that tends to appear around the time a child is a year or so old, as autism does, and that is also the age that kids get particular shots, they want to put those things together. Parents watch kids more carefully after they get shots. Sometimes they pick up on symptoms then. Just because two things happen at the same time doesn’t mean that one caused the other. This is why we need careful scientific studies.”

The linked post is essentially a giant annotated bibliography in the form of a blog post — and a brilliant rebuttal to all of the paranoia about vaccination that has large outbreaks of all sorts of completely preventable childhood diseases all over North America all of a sudden happening after all of these years without them.

It’s basically an updated list of what I studied through before we vaccinated our own kids…

The most entertaining part is the comments though — it’s like a shooting gallery…