White Paper Polio

Posted on February 7, 2012 by tcorrao

For this assignment I used Academic Search Premier.

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=9bb5c94f-1749-403b-9d10-e31cde710e32%40sessionmgr15&vid=4&hid=21

“The two main arguments that are used in support of a possible association are: (i) the prevalence of autism has been increasing at the same time that infant vaccination coverage has increased; and (ii) in some cases of autism, there is an apparent temporal association in which autistic characteristics become apparent within a few weeks to a few months after vaccination. Neither argument, however, is compelling.”

The article is about how measles vaccinations were closely linked to the cause of autism but are no longer linked to each other. It gives the reasoning as to why they were closely linked to each other. On the other hand the article also provides how those same reasons and new reasons why measles vaccinations are not linked any more.

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1 Response to White Paper Polio

  1. davidbdale's avatar davidbdale says:
    March 8, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    Tabitha, your comments do little to explain the value or the details of the source material.

    When you say “is about how measles vaccinations were closely linked to the cause of autism” you may think you’ve explained something, but let’s take apart your comment.

    “is about” doesn’t tell us what position the article takes. Is it a defense of the link? Does it refute the link? Does it examine the evidence that the link might have been flawed?

    “how measles vaccinations were closely linked” promises that the article describes HOW the vaccinations were linked, which it might, but I doubt it. It probably just reports that they were linked.

    “were closely linked to the cause of autism” doesn’t tell us whether science established that the vaccine caused autism, or perhaps prevented it, or exacerbated it, or just coincidentally occurred, or whether perhaps autistic children were resistant to the vaccine. In other words, “linked” could mean anything. It might mean that autistic kids have a natural immunity to polio and that finding the cause of one could lead to the cure for the other.

    We could run the same analysis on the rest of your comment, Tabitha, but I’m sure you get the picture. Precision in thinking and phrasing mean everything. See you this afternoon. 🙂

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