Re: science & politics of THIMEROSAL.

From: Peter Moran (moringa_at_gil.com.au)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:04:17 +1000

"john" <nospamoridiots@vaccine.com> wrote in message
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> "Peter Moran" <moringa@gil.com.au> wrote in message
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>> John, why does Haley never address the extensive epidemiological evidence
>> against his theories? He never even mentions it. I will tell you
> why.
>> He is an inorganic chemist, who has little familiarity with biological
>> or
>> clinical research. In the end his theories mean nothing if illness
> cannot
>> be correlated with mercury exposure.
>
> the medical mafia are concelaing the truth old chap, I am touched that you
> think they are searching for the truth, you would make a good dog,
> devotion
> even when overwhelming evidence has shown they couldn't give a rat's ass
> about children let alone the truth.
>
> "Epidemiology is like a bikini. What is revealed is interesting. What is
> concealed is crucial"
> Epidemiologic Evidence Is Insufficient To Prove There Is No Link Between
> The
> MMR Vaccine And Autism By Clifford G. Miller http://www.whale.to/a/ep.html
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>
John, do you understand what this extract from Miller's piece (below) is
saying? It specifically states that epidemiology "addresses whether an
agent can cause a disease" which is where we are at with mercury and
autism. This is a "Jan Drew" (also: "Jan Drewism" - posting something
that contradicts your own position).

 The final bit of the epidemiological evidence will be in place if the
incidence of autism drops, or doesn't drop, now that thiomerasol is being
removed from vaccines. Would you agree with that?

"Epidemiology is concerned with the incidence of disease in populations and
does not address the question of the cause of an individual's disease. This
question, sometimes referred to as specific causation, is beyond the domain
of the science of epidemiology. Epidemiology has its limits at the point
where an inference is made that the relationship between an agent and a
disease is causal (general causation) and where the magnitude of excess risk
attributed to the agent has been determined; that is, epidemiology addresses
whether an agent can cause a disease , not whether an agent did cause a
specific plaintiff 's disease ."

Peter Moran

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