lordmelkor on Nostr: “But Kennedy, too, has used his prominence to unnecessarily scare parents about the ...

“But Kennedy, too, has used his prominence to unnecessarily scare parents about the safety of vaccinations.
Kennedy’s case for this frightening assertion is that since 1989, two things occurred together: there has been a rise in neurologic and autoimmune diseases; and, we give children more vaccines. In the interviews I have listened to, he doesn’t take the argument much further than this, and I find it to be entirely lacking. It is low-quality causal reasoning, and is unpersuasive.”

This kind of ‘low-quality causal reasoning’ is not the kind of decision making entity we want to drive towards a position of power that is often presented with rapidly developing information or nebulous intelligence reports, where jumping to conclusions based on faulty reasoning can directly impact the lives of millions…