Justification for Twitter

If Maureen Dowd had waited a while longer she wouldn’t have had to ask the creators of Twitter to justify themselves.  The cartoon below is justification enough.

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Court rules on autism

From CNN.com:

A special court ruled Thursday that parents of autistic children are not entitled to compensation in their contention that certain vaccines caused autism in their children.

“I must decide this case not on sentiment, but by analyzing the evidence,” one of the “special masters” hearing the case said in denying the families’ claims, ruling that the families had not presented sufficient evidence to prove their allegations.

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Perspectives on vaccinations

Drek recently posted the latest in his long line of work on popular vs. scientific conceptions of vaccinations.

As it turns out, not only has nobody been able to replicate Wakefield’s original research, not only has changing the MMR schedule in various countries not produced changes in autism rates, not only did most of the authors on Wakefield’s article later retract their interpretation of the results, it now appears that all of our failures to confirm an MMR/autism link are attributable to one simple problem: Wakefield made his data up.

Fabio also posted about this at orgtheory.

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