While wandering round the internet during the recent flare-up of bloggers writing about recent developments in the MMR-autism conspiracy theory, I came across this neat graphic which seems to me to encapsulate some of the issues relation to causation vs coincidence (for example, see "MMR and false syllogisms" for more information).
In the meantime, Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog seems down – maybe the recent upsurge in traffic has overwhelmed it.
13th February 2009 at 8:39 am
Like the cartoon – did you ever read the original paper in The Lancet? I did at the time and it was just [u]awful[/u] science. If I remember rightly, it only mentioned MMR once when one mother mentioned that her child had had the jab.
13th February 2009 at 9:37 am
Well, Wakefield’s original was a long time ago…
In the meantime, this URL is worth looking at:
http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/183/
Robert