Οικολογισμοί: 124 (now 144) (now now 157) papers that DO NOT prove vaccines cause autism

Πέμπτη 21 Νοεμβρίου 2019

124 (now 144) (now now 157) papers that DO NOT prove vaccines cause autism

EDIT NOVEMBER 1 2017: GINGER'S LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED TO 142 PAPERS. I HAVE ADDED ALL THE NEW ONES IN ORDER. NEW PAPERS ARE PREFACED BY **.

EDIT NOVEMBER 29, 2017: GINGER HAS ADDED TWO MORE PAPERS, MAKING IT A NICE EVEN 144.

EDIT MARCH 1, 2019: GINGER HAS ADDED 13 MORE PAPERS, MAKING IT A TOTAL OF 157.

It seems like all I use Twitter for these days is arguing with antivaxxers. And occasionally flat earthers . . . no, seriously. Unlike "effective homeopathy", they exist. That's not at all why I started tweeting - in fact, I created my account solely for the purpose of shamelessly advertising this stupid blog which you good people are valiantly reading. But alas, I discovered very quickly that Twitter is a wretched hive of scum and villainy like nowhere else in the universe (as far as we know). Antivaxxers are not only present but also obnoxiously vocal, spreading various lies, half-truths, misinformation, and malinformation. They make the same tired (read: wrong) arguments repeatedly, never seeming to learn from the many mistakes they make:
MMR causes autism! (No it doesn't, and here's evidence)
But Wakefield was exonerated! (No he wasn't, and here's evidence)
Thimerosal! (No, and here's evidence)
Aluminum! (No, and here's evidence)
Polysorbate 80! (No, and here's evidence)
Aborted fetal DNA! (No, and here's evidence)
Formaldehyde! (No, and here's evidence)
Too many too soon! (No, and here's evidence)
Then it must be other vaccines! (No, and here's evidence)
Well if it isn't vaccines, then it must be vaccines! And here is a list of 124 (now 142) research papers that PROVE vaccines cause autism!
And there it is. It nearly always comes down to that link (unless they give up and throw it out at the outset). I've mentioned this particular Gish Gallop in passing (it was formerly 99 papers that was increased to 124, then 130, and has now been rounded out to a nice even 157), but I've never really attacked it head on. This list of papers was compiled by rabid antivaccine lunatic Ginger Taylor, and Liz Ditz previously produced a nice compilation of refutations of many of them. And The Logic of Science blog just wrote a very comprehensive and well-written summary of the supposed evidence against vaccines which addresses several of them as well.