A comment I love: I have never understood how anyone can discredit the first hand stories of families who have seen their children have reactions to any type of medication including vaccines? Why are they considered crazy? - Sheri May Yes indeed. What is dismissed as anecdotal evidence are first-hand stories of very real people. Are we going to believe the faceless statistics, but dismiss real stories from real people? Think of it this way: Mary tells her story. It can be a story of vaccine reaction, or a story of the awful treatment she got in the hospital, or a success story of using alternative therapy... So-called skeptics of the world dismiss her story as anecdotal evidence. But what if tomorrow a prestigious university conducts a study, and, as part of the study, sends Mary a questionnaire, and she fills it out, basically telling the same story? Suddenly, her story becomes respectable, because its part of the study conducted by people with alphabet soup behind their names. Yet its the same person! Its the same story! When you stop and think about it, dismissing personal stories as anecdotal makes zero sense...
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:00:00 +0000
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