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... not 18 deaths as the tw-lamplighter school of spin doctoring would propagandize.
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"spin doctoring" and "propagandize" here are the sorts of emotional
word-usage that TW has been talking about all along.
If Sexobon could make his polemics convincingly, he would not need them.
I have previously disagreed with the use of death as the end point of assessing risk.
but have my limited recent postings to death-related data from reasonably reputable sources.
A significant portion of the discussion in this thread has included herd immunity.
Unless Sexobon subscribes to the school of "pathogen autogenesis",
he has yet to suggest an explanation for the increase in incidence
of vaccine-preventable diseases, with their associated death rates
or aftereffects in the Wakefield/McCatrhy era.
The popular press (
Time (2011)) reported a Univ Michigan study
that ~25% of the people trusted her erroneous attributions.
But now, which parents today should blame the messenger...