People reference studies in defense of their opinion after reading nothing more than their title

When presented with a list of pubmed articles and studies proving something you know to be false, don't panic. The seemingly insurmountable collection of links may be disheartening, but if you arrived to your opinion through careful consideration then they are not as daunting as they appear.

the following is an excerpt from a facebook exchange regarding "studies that show vaccines to be safe"

If you have a different interpretation of any of the material linked above please provide your perspective so that I might become aware of any misunderstandings of mine. 

Andrews, N., Miller, E., Grant, A., Stowe, J., Osborn, V., & Taylor, B. (2004). Thimerosal exposure in infants and developmental disorders: a retrospective cohort study in the United Kingdom does not support a causal association. Pediatrics, 114, 584-591.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15342825 ;

This is a study that shows increasing levels of thimerasol in vaccines does not increase incidence of developmental disorders in people receiving the respective vaccines. I.E more thimerosal in a vaccine does not mean more cases of ASD.

Andrews, N., Miller, E., Taylor, B., Lingam, R., Simmons, A., Stowe, J., Waight, P. Recall bias, MMR and autism. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Dec 2002; 87(6): 493–494.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../PMC175.../pdf/v087p00493.pdf ;

This is a study, showing that parents are more likely to report a reaction to vaccines following Wakefield's autism scare (expected).

Baird, G., Pickles, A., Simonoff, E., Charman, T., Sullivan, P., Chandler, S., Loucas, T., Meldrum, D., Afzal, M., Thomas, B., Jin, L., Brown, D. Measles vaccination and antibody response in autism spectrum disorders. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2008 Oct;93(10):832-7. doi: 10.1136/adc.2007.122937. Epub 2008 Feb 5.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18252754 ;

This is a study showing that cases of ASD are not shown to have raised anti-body activity related to the measles antigen. (I'd like to remind anyone reading that "anti-vaccine" rhetoric alleges that is the mechanical process of vaccination doing damage and not the quality or variety of ingredients in the vaccine used). This study would be relevant if we were debating that measles are a precursor to ASD.

Berger, BE., Navar-Boggan, AM., Omer, SB. Congenital rubella syndrome and autism spectrum disorder prevented by rubella vaccination--United States, 2001-2010. BMC Public Health. 2011 May 19;11:340. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-340.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21592401 ;

This is a study that highlights the association between rubella infections in pregnant mothers and increased incidence ASD. It does not speak to the safety of vaccines themselves but to the reduced incidence of ASD when a baby is born under healthier conditions. Authors here make a stretch by saying that autism is prevented by inference of the rubella vaccine.

Black, C., Kaye, JA. Relation of childhood gastrointestinal disorders to autism: nested case-control study using data from the UK General Practice Research Database. British Medical Journal. 2002; 325(7361):419-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.325.7361.419 ;

This is a study showing that there is no link between gastro-intestinal disorders and ASD. If there is any relation to vaccines here it is in that vaccines cause gastro-intestinal disorders which is conjecture.

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Bower, H. New research demolishes link between MMR vaccine and autism. British Medical Journal. 1999. Jun 19;318(7199):1643.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116011/" ;

This is an article that does not link to the studies referenced and omits consideration of methodology behind the process of standardized ASD diagnosis, which only happens at a particular age. Comparing the age where children's developmental markers are considered for diagnosis of ASD, to when children received their MMR vaccine(variable) actually tells us nothing (which the article describes as a lack of causation) - it would be helpful to see the 2 studies referenced.

Chen, W., Landau, S., Sham, P., & Fombonne, E. (2004). No evidence for links between autism, MMR and measles virus. Psychological Medicine, 34(3), 543-553.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15259839 ;

This is a study showing that exposure to various forms of the MMR vaccine does not increase or decrease incidence of ASD - again this is not about the mechanical process of vaccination but about the relationship between virology and ASD.

Christie, B. Scottish expert group finds no link between MMR and autism. British Medical Journal, 2002. May 11;324(7346):1118.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1172158/ ;

This is an article that references work done by an expert review panel in Scotland that actually said the following ; 
" The group's chairman, Graham Forbes, said it was not possible to definitely exclude a link between MMR and autism, because "you can't prove a negative." "

They are concerned that switching back to a single immunization per vaccine schedule (M,M,R over time instead of MMR) would make it more likely that toddlers do not complete the schedule and therefore advised we stick to the schedule as it is and then actually advised there be more funding for researching a potential relationship between vaccination, IBS and ASD.Clements, CJ., McIntyre, PB. When science is not enough – a risk/benefit profile of thiomersal-containing vaccines. Expert Drug Opinion Safety. 2006. Jan;5(1):17-29.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16370953 ;

I need a subscription to access this article, it weighs the risk/benefits of excluding thimersol as an adjuvent when its availability is what makes providing vaccines to third world countries possible, again this is focus not on the mechanical process of vaccination and it's potentially detrimental effects but more about the ingredient thimerosol.

Vaccines proven not to cause autisum, cause for autism un-proven

less than 24 hour year old baby get's vaccine against sexually transmitted disease

tax dollars pay for all of it

you're an idiot for believing this is a good idea

MMR vaccine is needed, especially if a child has chance to grow in small-world environment first , any other vaccine is expensive water at best and dangerous at worst.

Vaccination was invented to control the outbreak of disease, not prevent against every disease someone might get.

Theft of tax dollars, thats all it is.

People over the internet openly encouraged me to kill myself, for advocating softening up of our public vaccine schedule.

stop drinking water

Material components in tea, vs , water, bring a greater degree of magnetic diversity to the cellular soup we are ingesting. A higher number of local electromagneitc charges along our digestive tract acting on the newly ingested particles (by way of effecting their respective attractive / repulsive forces) slows down a liquids movement through the body and ultimately retains body temperature.

Against drinking a liquid like water, which takes our temperature right out from inside of us. We heat it up and gravity pulls it through the digestive tract and with it, energy in the form of heat. Losing heat local to our digestive tract negatively impacts cellular activity and the speed at which chemical reactions occur - detrimental to effective digestion.

ID'ing the "global financial elite"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/11/us-uk-politics-economics

Robert Reich , political commentator ( and former United States Secretary of Labor under Clinton) , would point to publicly traded companies like Facebook and Google.

I suspect large elements of our worlds gross-inside-trade network are much easier to identify than the often implied anonymity of 'banks on bank' and stock ownership.

To put Robert Reich's relationship with this inspiration into perspective, consider that the 'Guardian Media Group'  , who owns the guardian newspaper and website, is a privately traded company.

the vaccination debate (2)

People still consider our medical institution infallible and immune to criticism.

A child that hasn't been on the earth for longer than a day is (optionally) immunized against Hep-B , a sexually transmitted disease.

People occupy their immune systems by vaccinating against virus's found in geese migrating through Asian (influenza vaccine) , only to come home to virus's their bodies have never before encountered in their own back yards.

I don't want my child to be born into diptheria or measles , I want everyone to get a tetanus booster if they're going to start working outside.

 I want my kids to start school  later, so their bodies can mature and strengthen in the relative safety of their home before they're exposed to virus's from both ends of the world, which can be found on the same city block in our modern city.

Why is it so hard to believe that this technology could ever possibly be miss-applied?

When our vaccine schedule is being re-evaluated (it's inevitable) remember what your opinion of "anti-vaxxers" was.


http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/ontario-parents-who-object-to-vaccines-could-be-forced-to-take-a-class-in-science-of-immunization

logic has no sense to those who lack it.

as someone who depends on herd immunity and trying to explain that to others is like trying to talk to a brick wall.
Idiots will just say this is the government trying to indoctrinate everyone.

Just what we need... These people homeschooling their kids :S

lets just deny public healthcare to those who refuse, and make it mandatory they pay for private health insurance for their children.

It should be a legal requirement. They're not only endangering their kids but others as well

If you simply kick them out of public schools they'll just create their own private schools where they can act as a petri dish for all that crap. They need to be quarantined.
I feel like releasing a nice round of smallpox or something else horrifying and pretty much eradicated might help. 

benefit of VR

Having lot's of information displayed at once increases the ease by which one makes associations between details which is a major part of retaining information.

When we turn a page, we rely on our short term memory to build associations and retain information. When we are looking around in a 3d space, there is a lot of room for data to be visible, far more than humanity has had in the past.

Because of this, VR will give birth to a generation of powerfully intelligent scholars,

a future generation of computer peripheral's (input)

How are people going to interact with an artificially generated 3d space? This is of course up to developers of individual pieces of software / hardware to determine, though the models that allow us to traverse more information in shorter amount's of time will no doubt end up popularly employed.  

        Whether it's navigating files in their operating system, or using software, users are going to long for a way to avoid taking off their headset's when it's time to type letters on a keyboard or navigate options by use of a mouse. Use of a mouse requires the presentation of relevant options to reflect the 2d plane of a mouse-pad so what is the point of a 3d environment in this case? It's going to take a revolution in peripheral hardware support for someone using solely an artificial 3d environment to access information as fast as someone using an oldschool pc-desktop setup can..

But that's really just a natural assumption...

 Our culture already knows how to get places fast in a 3d space. By pressing a gas pedal. The organization of information from a programming point of view is going to remain the same - it's the way how we present information in our software that is going to change. We're going to be able to "drive" to it.

  Even the navigation of information in our current digital age  , the effervescent *click* of today's model  ,  is positive input.

Imagine looking up at the sky, constellations of stars are transparently indicated as your every-day software. Through a seamless, sudden, burst of forward momentum - the user takes closer inspection of a spectacular looking, prominent nebula directly above."My Computer" has many small stars and constellations to further inspect. All the while, a mere glance down (and maybe some gentle application of the gas pedal in that downward direction) displays additional options and system information connected to the constellation the user is at.

^ This describes what an early operating system is likely to look like. It leave's options open in terms of inputting information because this will be left to the preference of the user in an early VR age, where not everyone has the same competency/comfort with a keyboard.

Early VR software will likely offer "in-house" options for data input such as type pads or other promptings for positive input. Headaches caused by these early options will create a demand for better interface hardware that makes use of the dexterity of a person's fingers - any sense of intuitive operation of this new hardware will depend on the designer and the user having similar cultural/ generational backgrounds and having similar rational tendencies which all can be very different - what is intuitive for a designer is often not intuitive for intelligent people ; see , the elderly.

Ultimately, (yes, I mean ultimately), efficient navigation of artificial 3d planes will be enabled by a user and a designer both being familiar with known, predictable principals like, looking down towards the black part of the background prompts file properties to be displayed (just an example).

Finally, when a user of a 3d interface can navigate obscure spaces whatever they may resemble, based on known, predictable, potentially arbitrary formats of categorical organization,  man kind will access information like never before.