That is an example of anecdotal evidence. "I brought the problem, I gave them examples, It wasn't enough". Somebody tells a short account of their personal experience, and concludes that they did something to try and change another persons mind, but it didn't work. Or rather, it wasn't enough, I need to do more.
Whatever. We don't always recognize when we do the same thing we find flawed in others.
Like starting off a thread about anecdotal evidence with anecdotal evidence. I would suspect deliberate irony, to bring about a humorous response, but that might be giving too much credit.
It does show how deeply ingrained humans are when it comes to observing what happens, and foolishly believing what they observe counts as evidence. They must be trained, taught, to doubt their own experience, and only trust experts who do experiments and use science to determine reality.
Especially parents. They see their kid fall out of a tree, and they assume the injuries that appear right after the event, were caused by the fall. They don't realize that until proper experiments and evidence are provided, they can't know that it was the fall.
Kids at that age often have broken arms, head trauma, and bleed profusely, just because one thing happened, then the injuries appear, doesn't mean they are connected.
Of course parents might come around and stop being so dumb, if we could only show them the evidence. Sadly, they probably would still insist the fall led to the injuries. Same for hot objects, sharp pointy things and electric sockets.
Stupid parents. They trust their own experience over an expert who was paid a lot of money to show that nothing we inject into a child ever causes any harm, it is always just coincidence that kids get sick and develop serious symptoms right after multiple injections.
I don't think anything can really be done about it. Except maybe jailing anyone who questions authority, and refuses to allow their kids to be injected.
Oh sure you have those Amish with there lack of autism. But it is just coincidence that they refuse all vaccines. Or it could be genetics. How do we know? Well, we don't,but somebody said it was genetics so that is good enough.
Same for that other group of religious nutjobs who refused all vaccines. Sure they have almost no autism, but again, it is just coincidence. Same for those isolated tribes that never get vaccinated.
It is either coincidence or genetics. It can't be anything anyone did, despite how it seems. Parents just need to shut up and quit rocking the boat.
Kids just naturally go from normal to autistic, at the exact same time they get a buttload of vaccines. Stupid experience, always getting in the way of theories and evidence.
Oh, and all those stupid Doctors and researchers that find a connection between vaccines and health problems, they are all stupid too. Like those European countries that banned mercury. They are so dumb. They think mercury might be hurting kids.
Ha! That can't be true, because everybody agrees it can't be true.
What? No no, trust me. If a scientist or a Doctor says something, it must be true. Unless it is one of those Doctors that says something we don't agree with, then they are wrong.
Oh sure we could do animal studies, inject a bunch of monkeys and chimps babies and mothers with vaccines and adjuvants to actually see if they can cause neurological problems, but since we don't have any evidence to show mercury or vaccines causes any problems, what would be the point? I mean, it said right there in the OP article that "On the one side are scientists who have been unable to find any causal link between the symptoms of autism and the vaccine preservative thimerosal". See? They looked, but can't find any evidence.
So what would be the point of doing research and actually testing the stuff out? Plus that kind of research is expensive and stuff.
Oh sure, you might think adjuvants would be required to be tested before we use them, but we have been using them since 1947 or so,
so why worry about it now? Same for mercury. It has been used for a long time, without any testing, why would you want to actually do all that hard science to find out what it can do to developing babies and pregnant moms and stuff?
I mean, if you inject a bunch of pregant chimps and then inject the little chimp babies and study what happens, you might hurt the little chimp babies. Or worse, waste time and money. Because we already know the answer, we don't need to do any experiments, studies, all that scientific crap.
Scientist found no evidence, and that closes the case. If you look real hard, and there is nothing to show any evidence, why would you want to do animal studies and all that expensive and time consuming really hard stuff? If you already know, you don't have to do anything.
Besides, they stopped using mercury, except for when they still use it (every year, but only for babies and pregnant moms), because the Flu is dangerous, so mercury is OK then. But it can't be mercury, because we stopped using it. What? Something else in the vaccine? Don't be absurd. Next you will want extensive animal studies done on all vaccines and adjuvants and everything. Do you think we are made out of money?
Besides, testing all those combination's of vaccines would be a lot of work.
But anyway, people are just so dumb, they think they know there kids intimately, and can tell when something effects them and makes them sick. They just need to realize that Pharmaceutical companies and researchers never lie, and if they tell you something, it has to be true.
So Parents, stop believing your own experience, and start trusting the Government and the Drug Companies. They are only here to help you.
And stop asking for animal studies and all that crap. We told you, we found NO EVIDENCE!! Why can't you just believe? Why are you so skeptical of our claims? Trust us, we never hurt a single child, and we are never wrong about stuff we give kids and moms.
And if you say different, you are wrong. Because we said so.
