science - vaccines, flames, Amish - and sanity

[Guest guest]

Is the CDC taking a small first step away from a " one-size-fits-all "

vaccination policy? (1) Data from a survey of vaccinated vs

unvaccinated are available (2). An increasingly frustrated Dan Olmsted

considers autism and various diseases among Amish (3).

As I read segments of the Chicago Tribune's excellent series about flame

retardants (4), I couldn't help but think that similar distortions of

science - on behalf of marketing - occur in many other fields. P.

A. Ioannidis' 2005 paper sheds light on " wiggle room " in published

studies (5). Nonetheless, seemingly sane science continues to have

worthy moments (6).

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1. */Revised Recommendations for Vaccines Are Being Phased In, CDC

Report Says/*

Can vaccines be more useful for some people than for others?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gerganakoleva/2012/05/11/revised-recommendations-for\

-vaccines-are-being-phased-in-cdc-report-says/

2. */Unvaccinated Children Less Likely to have Asthma or Allergies/*

http://www.alignlife.com/articles/asthma/Unvaccinated_Children_Less_Likely_to_ha\

ve_Asthma_or_Allergies.html

[see data at]

http://www.vaccineinjury.info/vaccinations-in-general/health-unvaccinated-childr\

en/survey-results-illnesses.html

3. */The Amish All Over Again/*

By Dan Olmsted

http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/05/dan-olmsted-the-amish-all-over-again.html

4. */Chemical companies, Big Tobacco and the toxic products in your home/*

[flame retardants]

http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html

5. */Why most published research findings are false./*

Ioannidis JP.

PLoS Med. 2005 Aug;2(8):e124.

http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

" ...when there is greater financial and other interest... "

6. */A strategy for comparing the contributions of environmental

chemicals and other risk factors to neurodevelopment of children./*

Bellinger DC.

Environ Health Perspect. 2012 Apr;120(4):501-7.

http://ehponline.org/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.1104170

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