dr_jeff wrote in
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On 10/29/10 9:26 PM, Steelclaws wrote:
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On 10/29/10 7:17 PM, Steelclaws wrote:
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There is an increase in autism.
There is an increase in vaccination.
Therefore a correlation.

Your logic is faulty.

There is an increase of ice-cream sales in Scandinavian
countries.
There is an increase of deaths by drowning deaths in Scandinavian
countries.
No correlation.

My understanding of the word "correlation" is two things that
happen
in tandem or simultaneously. They don't have to prove that they
are
connected, merely that they happen at the same rate.

So selling more ice-cream causes more deaths by drowning, according
to
your logic... Not in real life.

Or, drowning causes more ice cream sales.

There has to be a mechanism for causation to work.

That's what I'm trying to explain to carole, but she's not getting
it.

You're not going to convince Carole or Jan Drew of anything. Both lack
have the ability to do any independent thinking. They're both true
believers.

I know. Most of my posts are really aimed at the onlookers.

I killfiled Jan ages ago, as there is to point even to talking to her,
and she did not ever post anything of interest while I was still reading
them.

The people to whom I really am speaking are thinking people who have
heard misinformation about vaccines and still have an open mind.

About the same here, though I deal with pseudoscience, SCAM and nonsense
in general as well.

--
The trouble with the World is that the stupid are so confident
while the intelligent are full of doubt. -Bertrand Russell