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    #122
    brokensoul
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    pwurple wrote: »
    It's inability to assess risk correctly. Basically like messing up their maths homework. A lot of people are innumerate. It's just a hunch, but the anti-vaxxers I know personally, maths would be their weak subject.

    I don't think there is malice in it, if there is, it's blinkered selfishness rather than actual desire to harm and kill sick children (which is the end result).

    I would agree with that. Also, something I have seen a lot in anti vac arguments is a lack of understanding of the notion that correlation does not imply causation. A happened, B happened. That does not mean that A caused B.


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    shesty
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    I could be wrong but I think the CP vaccine doesn't guarantee against getting CP?
    Am I mixing that up with something else?


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    #124
    Orion
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    brokensoul wrote: »
    I would agree with that. Also, something I have seen a lot in anti vac arguments is a lack of understanding of the notion that correlation does not imply causation. A happened, B happened. That does not mean that A caused B.

    That was pretty much the basis of Wakefield's research. I tested all these autistic kids. All of them got the MMR. Therefore the MMR caused autism. 1 5 year old could work out the flaws in that logic.


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    #125
    Orion
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    shesty wrote: »
    I could be wrong but I think the CP vaccine doesn't guarantee against getting CP?
    Am I mixing that up with something else?

    No vaccine is 100% effective for immunisation. That's where herd immunity comes in.

    In the case of the CP one it's 90% effective in children who get one dose and higher if getting a second dose as the HSE recommends.


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