When People Have No Idea What They are Talking About
And trip up on the their own ideology-driven narrative
Following the newly found-again notoriety of the Cochrane reviews on influenza vaccines
The US Media and the Revised US Influenza Immunisation Schedules
Tom was recently contacted by the Washington Post, CBS News and the Boston Globe. Fame at long last!!!
one of our readers sent us this X post:
This person’s ignorance is abysmal.
First, the reviews, which were updated over two decades, included observational data. This was retained for historical purposes but not updated because its quality precluded any inference. (polite scientificese meaning they were unintelligible garbage).
Second, if this fella had read the reviews and done his homework, instead of relying on abstracts, he would have picked it up from the history of the reviews or the US HHS text.
Third, Dr Scott trips up on his own ideology when he claims that influenza deaths are rare. If so, why on earth spend all that time and money on vaccination against rare outcomes?
Ironically, he is partly right in his stammering about the topic. The combined denominator of the three reviews is 285,000, with six deaths reported, none of which is related to influenza.
Xers like this one are ruining science an…
